Cutting on wood that has a curved surface

[Gs.spencer]

I'm looking for tips (if possible) on how to create a 2D drawing in VCarvePro but have it cut on a piece of curved wood. I'm looking at taking one of the staves from a wine barrel and etching a pattern on the surface. The only problem is that both X and Y axis have a constant but symetrical curve or arc along the surface.

Is there a way to plot Z elevations across the curved surface of the wood so when the G code runs it wont dig in deep cuts at the top of the curve and do shallow cuts on the edges?

I tried looking for help in my Cut3D software but it appeared all I could do with that software was just open a pre-existing 3d file...

Thanks for any suggestions,

Greg
www.wood-gsco.com

[Eagle55]

I'm not 100% sure but it sounds like you may be needing the Aspire program to do this, and even then I'm not experienced enough to say how to do this. I'm sure there may be some others soon that can advise you. I don't know that you wouldn't need the 4th axis arrangement. But I am pretty sure that you can't do it very easily if at all with V-Carve.

Roger

[tmerrill]

Hi Greg,

You would need to have Aspire for this because the first step would be to model the surface of the wine stave so the program knows where to project the 2D image onto.

Here are two posts showing some sample results and how Aspire would be set up to do this:

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 513#p55513

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 27&start=0

Tim