Vectric Customer

We designed and built this project in about 2 months. ...But we were working very hard.

This airplane we recently finished is the largest file we've sliced in Aspire for cutting on our Shopbot.
A fun project, but took some time and patience for sure.

Here is a video of the other work we did, all of the CNC work was done with Aspire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbHVSWASDt8

WOW! that looks great! Very meticulous work. You are a craftsman.

Looks great! Awesome work on that. What did you finish it with?
-JD

Here is a photo prop we finished up recently. As usual, mostly foam.

thanks for the comments.

chostet, thank you so much. I love your King Neptune project, very inspiring. Great work. Your compliment is very generous after seeing your work.
Thanks,
JD Winters

We needed to make a "stand" or "Base" to mount our costume head on when not in use. I of course overcomplicated this simple idea and made the base resemble Mr Fredricksen's body. So now it's actually a bit of a statue. We used aspire to clean up the model I had sculpted, then sliced it and setup too...

I have had trouble with stl's the size of 90 mb or so and try to keep my import under 30-40mb. A trick I use is found on the Shapeways website. It will change the resolution of your model, but depending on the bit size, it will likely not change your finished cut. It uses a free software called Mesh...

The material is EPS (styrofoam). VCarve toolpath in Aspire made short work of digging into foam, you can cut it pretty fast.

This was actually a lot of fun. I thought about it on the way to work, and pulled it off in under 1 hour.
http://www.jprostudios.com/valentines-d ... challenge/

Beautiful work. I'm always too nervous to try this. Every time I've attempted to take it on, it is on a sign or project that has just way too many vectors to keep track of.

I completely agree with both of the above comments about 2D toolpaths.

This turned out great! Perfect use of the software.
Great job!

Just a huge fan. I'm just as curious, and half as clever...and 90% less weird.
Thanks,
JD

zeeway wrote:That is fascinating work. Are you a relative of LDaVinci?

Angie

I have not been in the forums for a little while, but I have a good excuse. I've been busy building parade floats! This was a fun project, as we were able to utilize most of our in house technology to produce the floats this year. The client provided pictures of some of their elderly basket weavers,...

Those look really great Jamie!