So frustrated thinking about selling

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

When asked about this, my suggestion has always been that folks should:

• work up a design
• draw up the design in a suitable tool
• import the design into a suitable CAM tool
• select a material to cut it out of
• research the tooling and feeds and speeds necessary to make the cut
• assign toolpaths
• preview

folks who are successful with that, and who find it a workable way to work up a design usually enjoy having a machine.

That said, it would be nice to be able to use a customizer to make files.

For a while there was:

http://chaunax.github.io/projects/twhl-box/twhl.html

as noted at:

Rabbeted box generator for Carbide Create

I wrote a small app to create plans for rabbeted boxes on my S3. I wanted something where I could just type in the board thickness + width/height/length of the box I wanted, and have a plan ready to cut. It’s fairly simple right now; the rabbets are just calculated at 1/2 the thickness of the boards, but they should be ready to glue or fasten together. http://chaunax.com/shapeoko/twhl.html Since the Carbide Create .c2d file is in a readable format, I was able to create the entire .c2d file, al…

unfortunately, the .c2d file format has changed and the tool seems to no longer work.

I wrote up a bit about such designs at:

3D Project

and put up a couple of examples on Cutrocket:

Design into 3D: Box: Rabbeted: pencilbox

and

Design into 3D: Box: Rabbeted: with lid

and if anyone has difficulty working up a box of a particular size for a particular thickness of stock, please let us know and we’ll do our best to work things up.