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One of our forum members, GS098, is an artist and sculptor with no 3D modeling experience.
He is trying to incorporate Cheetah 3D in his workflow to facilitate laser cutting materials.
With no experience, just placing the splines is hard work.
This process has some real promise for laser cutting but I don't have a laser cutter myself so I have no way to test it.
Hopefully GS089 will prove it one way or the other in the end, which won't be for a while, no rush no deadline.
These splines represent most of the elements, like cross sectional slices.
The first thing to do is to separate the splines according to object.
Project Update: Thanks to Swizl for suggesting Unfolder, it's working perfectly.
Using the UV system for a laser cutting guide is a dead end, too many problems with scale.
Notes on laser cutters: They don't do beveled edges so it's butt joints or sanding I guess.
He is trying to incorporate Cheetah 3D in his workflow to facilitate laser cutting materials.
With no experience, just placing the splines is hard work.
This process has some real promise for laser cutting but I don't have a laser cutter myself so I have no way to test it.
Hopefully GS089 will prove it one way or the other in the end, which won't be for a while, no rush no deadline.
These splines represent most of the elements, like cross sectional slices.
The first thing to do is to separate the splines according to object.
Project Update: Thanks to Swizl for suggesting Unfolder, it's working perfectly.
Using the UV system for a laser cutting guide is a dead end, too many problems with scale.
Notes on laser cutters: They don't do beveled edges so it's butt joints or sanding I guess.
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