Cutting for Christmas!
Its fun to make presents for others with a CNC machine. I prefer the "folk art" approach over too much quality which makes things look store bought. The point being that anyone can tell its hand made, and every part has a distinct one of a kind style.
Pictures:
2D drawing to cutout
3D drawing to cutout
Finished Project
:-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiuU_qmu5PAWay cool
nice work. Need to show us that mill/router! Is TurboCAD still around? I was playing with it back in the Windows 3.1 days, always liked it.
RE
Hi, I’m running turbocad 17, solidworks, and autocad '10. I prefer solidworks, but when used with cambam it creates 6 duplicate layers on simple 2D DXF’s for some unknown reason. So I switch to a regular cad program for simple parts since no one has ever figured out why it does this. (this problem has been documented for years) My mill is from http://probotix.com/ as I know the owner of the company. I couldn’t justify making one from scratch like so many people do, when you can pick one of these up pretty cheap for the quality you get.
Have you ever considered inkscape for 2d parts?
I believe it can output gcode, otherwise, you could spit out a version of a dxf file.
RE
No, I have never tried it.
