carving on round surface

[837kenny]

Has any one every tried to carve on a round surface like a bed post or gun stock? If so did you build a sled ?
Thanks Kenny

[oldjoe]

No I have not personally tried it but I do know for a fact you would have to build a sled. The other thing is that designer will think it has a flat surface so you may have some problems as far as depth in certain areas of our carving

[Bill]

Peter,
You may want to look at this thread http://www.carvewright.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6313&highlight=round+surface (http://www.carvewright.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6313&highlight=round+surface)
by ChrisAlb post #9

[Dan-Woodman]

Kenny
I think it's been talked about on here somewhere that carving can be done on a gunstock,just make a sled, scan it with the probe,then it will go into designer to add your carving.
later Daniel

[ChrisAlb]

Daniel has the answer here.

Basically you have to start with the same curve on the board in designer. Whether you get it from scanning (the easy way) or design a gray scale gradient (the hard way), once you have that curve, just add your carvings to it and merge them "additive" so they follow the curve.

[ChrisAlb]

Here's a small example of placing a pattern on a curved surface. Merging it additive allows the pattern to follow the curve.

Chris

[837kenny]

Fellows Thanks for the reply I think i have a ideal of what to do now
Kenny