Reversed V-Carving

[Phil]

Last night I had trouble sleeping. I don't know why but an idea for doing reverse V-Carving with VCW ran through my head. I had never really thought about this before. Anyway here's a screen shot of what the result of my sleepless night produced. Am I the only one who dreams in CAD?

[Uncle Hai]

Hi Phil,
You are not only ONE, count me in.

[Dan.H.]

Phil the pics I posted at christmas..( christmas presents) down below are carved in the manner you
describe..cheers ....Dan

[Paco]

This refer to prism or raised edge strategie and named bevel carving too.

This one is particular since it has it's inside corners sharpen. Most routing CAD/CAM package only do "profiling" (or machine along vector) pass with a V tool bit (which doesn't sharpen inside corners). "Basic" raised edge can be achieve pretty easily. To get inside corners sharpen that way, one has to figure a techinc of it's own. I got one, what is yours Phil?:roll:

Now, can you make the difference between intanglio and raised edge strategie?!

[Phil]

Paco,
the drawing for the star is made up of four closed vectors. Each one is sort of an L shape. V-Carving with a 90 degree V-Bit cleans up the inside corners. What's your method?

[Paco]

Hummm... something telling me that what we see from above might not be what we think it is looking at it sideway (isometric view); can you post a isometric view of your design before I post about raised edge?

I think your design is actually different from what I've thought of so far.

[Paco]

This is raised edges examples...

[Phil]

Paco,
I think you're right. I didn't realize that I didn't have what I thought until I rotated the view.

[Paco]

Well, yeah, it's different but still intersting I believe. There might be some interesting applications...?!

I have'nt worked hard on this, but "detailed raised edged" stars are'nt so easy... not with the current options there is with CAD/CAM packages available. It would require some custom 3D moves for thoses inside details.