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RepRap - 3D Printer Tuesday, 01 November 2011 23:39 Here's my journey of building a Reprap 3d Printer. Took about two weeks to get to the point where I was printing and I am still tweaking things to get good prints but it's working well enough to share :) Read the Full Story
Homemade Bandsaw Bearing Guides Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:15 I wanted to upgrade my bandsaw with some bearing guides. Now my bandsaw is an old Craftsman model and I really wasn't looking to put a whole lot into it, heck I only paid $50 for it in the first place! So looking around I see that Carter makes some for like $170 - what!?! for some bearings? psshhhhh I'll make my own for like $20 :) Read the Full Story
Homemade Power Drive Wednesday, 01 June 2011 20:43 Using a Parallax Propeller Proto board and an Easydriver stepper driver from Sparkfun AND a Pololu Stepper Driver - I've built a home made power drive for my lathe / mill / drill - Check it out! Read the Full Story
Timing Pulleys Tuesday, 31 May 2011 14:12 I am working on a project for my Enco Mill Drill Lathe - it's a Power Feed driven by a Parallax Propeller and EasyDriver - part of the project involves making some Timing Pulleys to hook it all up! So this post is about the Timing Pulleys! Check out some pictures and videos! Read the Full Story
Latest 4th Axis Monday, 16 May 2011 13:21 I just realized that I've never uploaded anything about my latest 4th Axis that I've thrown together - so here are some pictures and a video about it! Read the Full Story

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Jamie

Oct 05 2010

3D Roses

My new friend Bob found the site via the web and contacted me about making some roses for the jewelry box he was making for his wife, so here they are!

 

Bob had a picture of the rose he wanted, so I had to take the rose and make it 3D. Artcam works great for such things, but the picture has to be cleaned up and some colors added to the different areas so that you can work with them. After you have the colors you can basically work with each color adding volume to that area in a variety of styles. 

After you have the "relief" as Artcam calls it - you generate the toolpaths in 3 stages... The roughing pass, the detail pass, and the final cut out. You can also preview how the operation will look without ever going to the machine!

the roughing pass doesn't look like anything good will come of it LOL but after the detail pass things look really nice!

and here's the final pieces and a video of the machine milling it out.

 

Update 12/3/2010: Bob sent me a picture of the roses on the door he made, and how he painted them - looks great!

 

Update 6/7/2011: The jewelry chest is finished! Here are some pictures of the finished piece - looks amazing!

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