First 3d carve elephant

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First try with 3d all done with a .250 ball nose end mill I think it might look better if I used a .125 ball nose
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I got the stl off grab cad then fusion 360, mesh mix, Easel

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I was thinking it would be cool once my .125 get here to carve a elephant and maybe a garafe and put them in the corners of door molding

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I use .0625 tapered ball nose bit and I get great detail the smaller the better imho

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I might have to look in to a few

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Here’s A Horse that I did last night

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Do you rough it with a bigger bit then finish with the smaller?

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Yes I have vcarve desktop that allows me to do a roughing pass with a .25 bit and then I will do a finish path

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It looks great I will have to try one of them bits

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They are really handy to have and they do so much

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Michael - how big is your piece (WxLxH) and how long did each the roughing and final passes take on your horse?

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It’s a software for editing 3d models I don’t have a lot of experience in 3d modeling but in this case the elephant mesh had to many facets and so I used it to reduce it to 10000 so I could import it in to fusion and tool path it and it meshmixer(auto corrected to mesh mix)

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Yes It is free it is a auto desk program. how ever auto desk remake dose a better job from what I read. but can’t get it to launch on my pc so I don’t know

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That piece is 5.5 by 6.125 the roughing pass took about 3 mins and the finishing path took about a half hour

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Would you mind sharing (when you have time) your CAM settings in Fusion for your roughing and final carves? I had no problem with my first carve in Fusion (except that I needed a slightly tighter stepover) but for whatever reason Fusion is now giving me fits and I am not sure what I am doing wrong, so comparing your setup would be really helpful. Kind of a PITA to do screenshots of the tabs, but if you could, I think it would be really helpful. Thanks!

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I’m still learning fusion I use vcarve desktop to create everything

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Oops! I actually see that Marcus is using Fusion. Since you both have the same icon and the same first initial, my eyes were apparently confused. Sorry!

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No worries I’m looking into learning fusion 360 for myself actually

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Wow… that’s way faster than I would have guessed.

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They are pretty nice to have. It goes up and down and around in a circle all at the same time when doing the 3d images it’s pretty cool how it works. Now I just have to find someone with aspire or someone with 3d files that I can import to vcarve

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