Crib Board Help

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InstrumentTech
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Model of CNC Machine: Stepcraft 2/840

Crib Board Help

Post by InstrumentTech »

Hi all,

Wondering if someone could help me with the following.

I've attached my .CRV file I'm trying to create this crib board, and trying to get the 3 rows of holes to line up some what decent. How can I go about getting this to work. These are on 3 different depths.

Thanks in advance.
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eph210
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Re: Crib Board Help

Post by eph210 »

The way I lay out Crib boards is to make three circles arranged vertically that are spaced the way you want the tracks spaced. Group these circles by selecting them and pressing G on the keyboard. Then make a vector that represents the middle track of the board. Use the copy along vectors tool (bottom row, fourth from left) and make 151 copies of the group of circles. Delete every sixth group and then two groups out of the final section to make the start and finish points. select the single group that is the finish point and Ungroup (U on keyboard) and delete the two outside holes.
You will have to play with the radius on the corners to get the inside holes to look nice.
Euan

InstrumentTech
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Joined: Tue May 03, 2016 4:33 pm
Model of CNC Machine: Stepcraft 2/840

Re: Crib Board Help

Post by InstrumentTech »

Thanks appreciated. I'll play around with it some more.

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