Hi everyone –
I am working on building some snowflake ornaments, and I’m trying to figure out why any material is removed from the top.
The stock is .25 inches thick
I’ve also set the model to be .25 inches thick
My question is - why does doing a 3D rough/3D finish take material off the top? The goal was the piece would be .25 inches thick and just cut out the shape
here’s my file and the stl i imported
snowflake-03.c2d (184 KB)
floco 1a.stl (46.3 KB)
cheers!
When downloaded your file doesn’t have a 3D model:
Please try zipping the .c2d file before uploading.
ah, strange.
i zipped the file with the stl in this version
snowflake.zip (156.5 KB)
oh this is V8, forgot to mention that, apologies
You have modeled this to be higher than the stock (indicated by red):
Kind of mystified by why you are using 3D.
If you have the 2D geometry:
It’s trivial to just offset to the outside:
Apply
Then cut as a pocket:
twice:
which previews as:
Unfortunately, a smaller tool will need to be used:
Uploaded as a v8 file.
snowflake-03_v8.c2d (540 KB)
For the surfacing of 3D areas, if you create things to match the stock thickness:
then the top will not be cut when roughing:
but for finishing, that seems to be intrinsic to the 3D process:
