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chief2007
05-12-2012, 08:14 AM
Ok looking for a 3D pattern to carve a wooden baseball.

I have a young man that collects baseballs and asked if I could carve him a full size wooden baseball

This is a freebie for him do any help is appreciated.

Steve

gwhiz
05-12-2012, 10:40 AM
It's going to have to be done in slices...your carve depth is less than an inch and a baseball is just under 3" diameter...

bergerud
05-12-2012, 11:26 AM
It can be done in one piece. Recall the sphere in the cube. It was only a 2 inch sphere but it can be made much larger (limited only by the 5 inch machine height). If you can figure out how to add the seam and stitch pattern, it could be a baseball. Another option would be to find a 3d baseball on the web and use the STL importer to chop it up with 45 degree planes to get the same sphere patches as in the sphere in cube mpc.

Alan Malmstrom
05-12-2012, 12:47 PM
Here is a height map I made. If you import it and place it inside of Designer without resizing it and then set it as a peirced carve with a height of 999 and add some tabs to it and carve on a 3/4 inch board it will carve out as a 3 inch baseball. You have to carve two patterns so you have 4 pieces.

The problem is that the sides of the seem stitch will not carve out perfectly. But it should glue together OK.

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Alan

jpaluck
05-12-2012, 12:55 PM
Here is a bump map of the threads

Alan Malmstrom
05-12-2012, 01:25 PM
Here is a bump map of the threads

Hey John

I tried to PM you but your folder is full.

Alan

chief2007
05-12-2012, 07:24 PM
Thank you all gentlemen I will give it a carve and post the results, Going to try them all

bergerud
05-12-2012, 08:28 PM
I managed to find a 3d baseball and converted it to STL. If you want to play with it, it is attached (as a .mpc to be renamed .stl).

chief2007
05-12-2012, 08:58 PM
I managed to find a 3d baseball and converted it to STL. If you want to play with it, it is attached (as a .mpc to be renamed .stl).

I sure will thanks much, one to add to the carve list.