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  1. #1
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    Exclamation dome milling?????

    i have no idea where to post this topic....

    anyway
    ii have been looking for this over a week and no luck....
    i am using cambam,sketchup,autocad2010...... and mach 3

    now i have no idea how to cut this.....

    what i did i traced the piece that i want to replicate and engrave on a paper and scanned to cad.......
    looks like this .....
    and the arch on right is the how it looks from the side.....

    and the top....


    i really have noooo idea what to do,,,,

    plz... help me

    p.s.
    its for a airsoft hand gun plate

  2. #2
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    Re: dome milling?????

    It seems like what you've got is a 2D drawing. What you need is a 3D model. I'm not an AutoCAD guy, but it probably has an "extrude" command. You need to select your cross section and extrude it to the length of your top view. That will produce a 3D model that you can export into CAMbam and use to generate a toolpath, which you'd use to produce a G-code file for your CNC machine that Mach3 could execute.
    Andrew Werby
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  3. #3
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    Re: dome milling?????

    i just got artcam.... and i have noooo idea what to do...

  4. #4
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    Re: dome milling?????

    Quote Originally Posted by Elektryk View Post
    i just got artcam.... and i have noooo idea what to do...
    Perhaps you should be asking questions here?

    http://www.cnczone.com/forums/artcam-pro/

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