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unitedcases
08-28-2012, 11:22 AM
Hello All,

I am trying to carve these images, however, I cant seem to "clean" them up enough. Any ideas? The top Main rotor blades are not coming out well at all and the whole thing is just not good. Thanks for any help.


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eelamb
08-28-2012, 04:36 PM
Are you looking for a vector carve, or normal pattern?

Added dxf file

jpaluck
08-28-2012, 05:04 PM
Here is a quick heightmap from a free model from http://thefree3dmodels.com/stuff/aircraft/uh60_helicopter/15-1-0-2533 using blender

The image will need clean-up..no time for me to do....it will get you started

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fwharris
08-28-2012, 07:03 PM
I tool John's image and cleaned a bit..

unitedcases
08-28-2012, 08:57 PM
I appreciate the effort on the UH60, great bird but cant use it. We only have Cobras and Yankees. I went to the 3d model site but have had no luck.

eelamb
08-28-2012, 10:06 PM
I took a stab at the ah-1w, maybe this will work for you.

lawrence
08-28-2012, 10:33 PM
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0ByJj2suDWiFVczNKblJyd3ZUbFk/edit
The files and STL are in the google drive link above

I've put everything into this folder and will load what I can here as well-

Here's my stab at the UH-1Y
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u313/ldr_klr/y.jpg

Working on the Cobra next if that's OK with you...

Lawrence

lawrence
08-28-2012, 11:28 PM
https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0ByJj2suDWiFVaWkxUVZqWjVjS0U/edit

more file types in the link above

Here's the cobra
http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u313/ldr_klr/cobra.jpg

Hope these help,
Lawrence

eelamb
08-29-2012, 05:27 PM
Lawrence those are nice. Did you design them?

CNC Carver
08-29-2012, 05:36 PM
Looking good! those are great!

GrammaPam
08-29-2012, 08:39 PM
Lawrence, those are great! Makes me dissatisfied with everything I can do.
G.P.

lawrence
08-29-2012, 09:40 PM
no skill needed, I promise!

If you do a search for "sketchup" you will find my instructions on how you can make patterns like these- and they cost you nothing if you have the stl importer. Sketchup has hundreds of thousands of free files located here
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/?hl=en

do a search on common things you'd like to carve, (say... a bicycle... )
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=bicycle&styp=m&scoring=t&btnG=Search

open it up in sketchup (it is free) and export it as a collada file. (or just export it with the stl plugin for sketchup) Then open this collada file with another free program called meshlab. You can then adjust the size etc in meshlab and then export it as an STL which can be imported/sliced/etc with the stl software. It's really so easy that even I can do it :)

I'm more than happy to do an in depth tutorial if y'all are interested. Just let me know

Lawrence

easybuilt
08-29-2012, 11:00 PM
You are awesome Lawrence. Thanks for your help!!