Rotary Jig newbie - Several Questions

[oscarl48]

Here you go. Let us know what you learn.

[oscarl48]

I did the quick model while I was waiting for my carve to finish.

I frustrate myself a lot sometimes. Guess what I just carved. Carved them out of a beautiful chunk of cherry. The carvings came out great. Now can everyone see how I royally messed up. lol

I am going to turn on some soothing music and have a nice adult beverage.

[Underdog]

Awesome!
Looks like it will work with some tweaking.
I still have to review the tutorial, but I kind of figured out how to get this thing into the rotary project.
I need to make the center axis thingy bigger.

[Underdog]

Thanks for those STL models. They look great.
I have the 3D package, but haven't really used it. I'm used to ArtCAM and Aspire products.

Can you give me a quick rundown of how you achieved these models?

[oscarl48]

lol. I used metaball modeling to make the base mesh and then digital sculpting to tweak the shape.

You have nurb modeling (CAD), poly modeling (polygonal modeling of 3d art software) and you have the granddaddy metaball modeling which was created in the early 1980's for Carl Sagan's Cosmo series.

[fwharris]

I did the quick model while I was waiting for my carve to finish.

I frustrate myself a lot sometimes. Guess what I just carved. Carved them out of a beautiful chunk of cherry. The carvings came out great. Now can everyone see how I royally messed up. lol

I am going to turn on some soothing music and have a nice adult beverage.

Used the same side? Glad to see you and Jim working this out.. I pointed him to you as a possible source for making the bird STL

[oscarl48]

I sure did. Newbie mistake from an old guy.

[Underdog]

I can get the model into the rotary file, and I can adjust the depth and percentage, but I can't seem to resize the width of the pattern to fit the 2" diameter. It's stuck on the 4-1/4" diameter width @13.359".
I can't type in a new number and have it stick, nor can I drag the yellow handle back to the edge of the unwrapped model on the left.
Any idea on how to get it "unstuck"?

[want2b]

Don't have any rotary experience but when I see the yellow number it means I've got a 'locked' dimension. Right click on the yellow number and at the top select ' remove attachment' which hopefully will allow you to change the number. Hope this helps.

[oscarl48]

test carved the model. Really happy with the pattern. Hard maple and mahogany. Using up some hardwood scraps.