Im fortunate enough that the company that I work for allows me and my co-workers to use the machines after work to do our own personal projects as long as its not on company time and we clean up after it, duh lol. The point is that ive wanted to machine something custom for everyone in my family for a long time and with christmas coming up i figured thats a great time. I work on a HAAS VF-4 and we use gibbs cam programming software. Im currently working on trying to machine a celtic cross for my mother, i just bought a plate of 6061 thats 20"X40" and im going to machine the cross to 18"X36". Ive got the base of it drawn up into a solid on gibbs cam for now and now im just trying to figure out how i might be able to do the splines all over it, i dont think it will be a problem to draw all of the radiuses inside of it but trying to figure out how to ramp them is going to be trouble, if anyones got an idea or a suggestion id like to hear it. Ive posted the picture i have of the solid i made, the cut image of it with a 45 degree on the edging and a picture of a celtic cross so everyone has a better idea of what im talking about with the radiuses and them going up and then down into the next one.
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