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thanks John
I'll give it a shot

John
Can I email the file to you? It's pretty straight forward the contour lines are at different elevations and a surface needs to be generated thru the curves(contour lines. Form-Z has a special...

I'm looking for someone with Form-Z to convert contour lines to a smooth 3D surface for me. I can email a dxf with the contours drawn at the spacing they need to be at.

I would just make a vac table the size of your smallest board. I've made them down to 4"x12" and they work great. Today I'm carving 1 3/4" curly maple stool tops on one that is 12"dia. Put thin...

Check out the BradyVac at http://www.shopbottools.com/BradysTricks.htm
I've been using these for everything. You can make them in any size you want. You can get rid of the pucks and make a vac...

sorry I didn't catch the remove up to here part
I just sent it again
grazie
Tim

Kevin
It just doesn't create the surface the way it should look. I've sent you a dxf to look at. thank you for trying to help

I'm working with 3.0

I've done simple 3D contours using patch.
But the one I'm doing now has many steps. Maybe my sttings are wrong?

does anyone know an easy way to convert contour lines to a smooth 3D suface in rhino? I have all the lines drawn at the depths that they're supossed to be at, but I can't seem to generate a good...

thanks Dave
that's kind of what I figured.

any thoughts on making a screen door out of 1" trupan?

I have a customer that wants 200 carved stool tops out of curly maple. The millwizard file I created takes 35min. Can anyone create a more efficiant file for me. I will be happy to pay a fee if the...

i agree that having knives cut is maybe the way to go. i have given my customer a quote for doing it on the bot and the number for someone to mill it for him. he's going to check it out and get back...

Jack
you could just draw one and creat a toolpath for it. then run the nest program under shopbot tools. this allows you to set up an array of your one tool path to cover the entire sheet.

Bill
you are the man. the flie editor was a piece of ckae and worked like a charm
Grazie

Brady
I totaly agree with finding a way to give the customer what they want. And I'ld do this job just for the challenge. I'm going to try out a test piece with a faster finish pass.
thanks...

thanks Brady
I have beenn using just one roughing pass with the 1/4" ball. What is 3D TP? Sorry I'm still green. It looks like I could cut my time in half if I bump up my finish cut speed. What...

OOPS!it looks like the same thing happened.
the ext. needs to be changed to dxf when you save it. any ideas about what's going on there?

I'll try again. For some reason the file ext. was changed. I was able to use save as and change the extension back to .dxf
I'm running an alpha @ 4"/sec with a .01" step over.
My customer is an...

thank you gents
i will try both and report back

does anyone know a quick way to find similar comand lines in a program? Say you are looking for all the lines where the value for z is -1.5
as in M3,6.5,1,-1.5
I am trying to eliminate...

Hello
I have a customer that wants me to reproduce some reeded picture frame molding. I've tried millwizard and the shopbot extruder and the best I can do is about 1 1/2 hours to cut 4ft. The stock...

Thank you to everyone for a very informative day. The topic came up to try to find a source of Trupan here in Maine. I eamailed the manufaturer and they do not distribute to Maine at this time. ...