Marzluf
01-24-2007, 08:04 PM
So..... today I attempted to carve what would be the knee of a cabriolet leg.
I understood going into it that it would not be able to wrap the design around the sides and keep the carving perpendicular to the surface. Anyway... I made a simple design merged onto two surfaces (each one being domed to the max - 1" deep and 999 height) I then made a quick sled out of some 1/2" ply that had side rails 2" tall for the rollers to contact. Next, I made some 45 Deg shims to hold the leg on its corner so that the carving would be on the correct 45 deg face of the leg.
Well...... everything seemed like it was going to work and I had planed to jog to position, locate surface etc.. but couldn't get past the measuring portion. I thought maybe the fact that I had side rails confused the sensor when it looked for the ends so I ran some masking tape across the front and back. Still no dice...
I'm sure I can trick into carving what I want, but getting there seems liek it's going to be a bigger job than I had planed on.
Anyone else attempt anything like this ?? Any sugguestions as to why the masking tape wouldn't fool the machine into "seeing" an edge for the length measurement ??
I understood going into it that it would not be able to wrap the design around the sides and keep the carving perpendicular to the surface. Anyway... I made a simple design merged onto two surfaces (each one being domed to the max - 1" deep and 999 height) I then made a quick sled out of some 1/2" ply that had side rails 2" tall for the rollers to contact. Next, I made some 45 Deg shims to hold the leg on its corner so that the carving would be on the correct 45 deg face of the leg.
Well...... everything seemed like it was going to work and I had planed to jog to position, locate surface etc.. but couldn't get past the measuring portion. I thought maybe the fact that I had side rails confused the sensor when it looked for the ends so I ran some masking tape across the front and back. Still no dice...
I'm sure I can trick into carving what I want, but getting there seems liek it's going to be a bigger job than I had planed on.
Anyone else attempt anything like this ?? Any sugguestions as to why the masking tape wouldn't fool the machine into "seeing" an edge for the length measurement ??