Using blender 3d to create stl for CW pattern

[oscarl48]

Alan, thanks. If I continue making two sided carvings I am going to have to figure it out. I haven't had much use for jigs up to this point since I mainly do one offs. Not sure if I want to do production work.

After some work with files and sandpaper I finished two spoons. Not super great but for a small town craft show may be okay. If not they will make nice gifts.

[Alan Malmstrom]

Well I've found that marking the center on both sides and then jogging to those marks to start the carve is the best way to center the two sided carve. Just measuring and marking with a pencil is better than when the machine measures the board.

[henry1]

Alan, thanks. If I continue making two sided carvings I am going to have to figure it out. I haven't had much use for jigs up to this point since I mainly do one offs. Not sure if I want to do production work.

After some work with files and sandpaper I finished two spoons. Not super great but for a small town craft show may be okay. If not they will make nice gifts.

oscar148 is it possible to get those spoon as a ptn or they are in the store if so what name you go under

[oscarl48]

Alan, again thanks. At some point I have to make time to learn how to do some of that stuff. I have so many projects on going I am not dedicating enough time to master the machine the way I should. Are you still playing with blender? I am astounded at what it can do every time I use it. I think after almost three years I am an intermediate beginner on a few aspects of it. Still haven't played much with animation.

[oscarl48]

Henry, here you go. Again for anyone carving them please use your good judgement on the setup. I still have work to do on that obviously.

Since I had the model decided to slap some material on it and make a render.

For the blender users, I used the blender internal render engine and procedural materials. Cycles is awesome but BI is still pretty cool.

[henry1]

Thank you oscar appreciated

[normrichards]

Thats really cool, a matching fork would also be cool, hint hint. LOL

[henry1]

Thats really cool, a matching fork would also be cool, hint hint. LOL

hint hint I second that, mine came out great fork would be nice

[oscarl48]

Henry, thank you for sharing. They look great. I am glad you were able to carve them. Yours came out better than mine. lol

We'll see about forks in the future.

[oscarl48]

Okay. I was way over thinking the project. I just loaded the spoon and cut slots in it. Instant fork. Took about 30 secs. Way longer to convert it into an actual pattern. It was right at 100 megs so designer kept crashing. Had to go back and reduce the size of the model but finally got it to work.