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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:48 pm
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Cutting Aluminumm
- Replies: 3
- Views: 275
Re: Cutting Aluminumm
Another "Well done!" from me. I played around with cutting aluminum on my Probotix CNC and although the bits didn't have any complaint cutting the aluminum, the flex in my gantry/Z axis showed its ugly face and ruined every test piece I tried.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:19 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Why would we want to make dovetails
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1403
Re: Why would we want to make dovetails
I consider any creative original work to be mind crafted. Be it my hand on hand tools or on wood feeding it through a power tool or on my keyboard/mouse drawing up vectors, all the hard initial work comes from my mind. The second step is always output done using my hands. What they do is what my min...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Love the drafting tools/features.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 331
Re: Love the drafting tools/features.
Thanks Jam2. Appreciated. The Area option of the measure tool has also been invaluable. I had a student designing a chair and she wanted the back to pivot. Essentially an extruded CNC cut shape of solid maple that felt good when leaning back on it. She want it to come to rest with just a slight lean...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Love the drafting tools/features.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 331
Love the drafting tools/features.
I have to throw a long deserved compliment to the programmers of VCarve/Aspire/Etc.. Brilliant. I have found the drafting tools invaluable. The measuring and dimensioning tools specifically. My latest furniture project is a TV Tray Table. Not much CNC work needed to make it, but the measuring tool h...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:10 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Why would we want to make dovetails
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1403
Re: Why would we want to make dovetails
Why? Uniformed demand. You can make all sorts of fancy joint using a CNC. Much more if you can clamp boards vertically or at any angle under the spindle plane which I can. I retired 2 years ago from teaching furniture design and fabrication to college students. I had a box full of fancy CNC cut join...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:58 am
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: Tapered table leg in VCarvePro
- Replies: 6
- Views: 469
Re: Tapered table leg in VCarvePro
"without a rotary axis". No modelling tools. Hmmm. Fluting tool and a tedious number of tapering lines carefully plotted to duplicate what a 3D toolpath would do travelling from the wide end to the narrow end. Each side a mirror image of the other, and as a 2 -sided job the same toolpaths used on th...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1221
Re: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
Under the modelling tab, there is an icon for creating a shape by extruding by one or more centerline vectors. So I used your arc shape, clipped the bottom off, and used the sides and top arc. I drew a vertical centering to use as the drive rail. Then picked the arc vector. Although there are other ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: VCarve - General
- Topic: Rustic Sign for Music Store
- Replies: 7
- Views: 605
Re: Rustic Sign for Music Store
Looks delicious! Nice sign as well. Made me add some blueberry jam to my grocery list.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Couple videos of furniture parts cut with Aspire
- Replies: 13
- Views: 707
Re: Couple videos of furniture parts cut with Aspire
Always enjoy your videos RS. Curious if you've ever had any breaking at the top of the legs where the grain is short after cutting the joint? I know some woods like to split, and might be more prone to breaking than walnut.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:40 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1221
Re: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
DXF file works. Only data I still need is the thickness of the posts/tenons. 1/3 of 13/16 would be .2708, an odd number. 3/8" would be my guess, but say you resaw from 3/4" thick wood ending up with smooth thickness would likely be closer to .2708 than .375. Here is a version with the mortises 3/8" ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:05 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1221
Re: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
Sorry. I'm still using Aspire version 10.515. If you can export your drawing as a DXF file and post it here I'll be able to open it. You'll be able to open my 10.515 version reply.
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- Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1221
Re: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
This was my first thought, but I think the bottom of the mortise profile cut will also follow the shape of the model, so you won’t have nice flat bottom mortises. True, but it wouldn't be hard to trim the post bottoms/tenons to the high end of the mortises. And if you do a follow up profile with a ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:57 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1221
Re: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
You could use the CNC with the arc laying flat, and planed or re-sawn to 2/3 the final thickness. Then lay out rectangles along the arc to pocket the depth equal to the thickness of the tenons. Then glue a board over the top for the last 1/3. Dogbone corners will account for square bottoms of the te...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:45 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1221
Re: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
You can profile the inside of the mortise outlines and map them to a 3D surface. They will still have radiused corners to deal with, and stepped/arced bottoms. And if you model the shape using an arc the shape of the top of the part you'll know the height of the arc. Make your material size the same...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:06 am
- Forum: Aspire - General
- Topic: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1221
Re: Need pointers for how to draw arch with Mortises
If you can clamp the curved part vertically, then draw a top view of it, lay out where the mortises would be, them map them to a 3D surface. Of course you'll need to make a 3D model of the curved arc top edge to do that. Then of course you'll need to consider making the tenons to fit. Can't help you...