Texture mailbox / birdhouse roof

[ttarney (Ted Tarney)]

How to create a textured roof similar to this mailbox

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

Well, there’s an STL for this sort of thing:

Bird house with cedar tiles

Given an STL file: [image] which is to be used to effect greater verisimilitude in a birdhouse: [image] the first question is why use 3/4" thick stock: [image] reducing that to match the thickness of the model (3/8") [image] has us cutting away much less material. [image] A further consideration is that the Model Resolution was set to “Standard” — increasing that to “Very High” and re-creating the design: [image] and a further consideration is proportion — presumably we want th…

[HeuristicBishop (Tyler Sowers)]

Another option might be to angle your board and do a series of straight cuts.

For some geometries this trick can make things much simpler. I can also make some jobs go much faster than having to interpolate steps with progressively smaller tools.

EDIT: in a bit of serendipity, this sort of approach is being discussed here: Angled Pockets and Workholding - #3 by Tod1d

[jtclose (Jim Close)]

Love it as is. Congratulations