[CarveOne]

I finished it this morning. After the glue had cured for a couple of hours I called the guy it was made for and he was here in under 20 minutes to pick it up. Another very happy P box owner.

[LouF]

C1, That is great I like that one best a very nice looking box that would be nice to place bedside with a Glock 26 inside..


Lou

[CarveOne]

Thanks Lou.

I've been playing with the basket weave vectors this evening to create a few more styles of it to use on future projects. The Aspire .crv3d files are about 2-2.5Mb when zipped. I may put them on my website and link to the Download folder later. When you get Aspire they may be useful to you. If you have Vcarve Pro there is a sizable discount if you get the VCP to Aspire upgrade.

[LouF]

I am saving up for the upgrade to Aspire..

[Arbo]

That box is NICE. Great work.

I haven't done anything with mine since the christmas present building session. Been busy with work, and selling off every bit of rc airplane stuff I have... I'm just not into that hobby at all any more. Plus the money from that has gone to reloading equipment, just finshed a major clean and reorganizing of half my shop today.

Do you (or anyone) have the files for the 1911 grips? I happen to have added a 1911 to my collection, so I figured I'd cut some of my own grips. Seems a lot of reloaders want wood reloading blocks as well, so will probably be working on making some of those.

[Albert586]

they came out good I like them.

[CarveOne]

R/C models are not in my interest anymore either since I got interested in CNC. Part of my interest in CNC was to make R/C foamies and scratch built model parts. I have a few planes, engines, and unbuilt kits with lots of stuff to build them with. Need to do a good spring cleaning.

I started working on the 1911A compact grips and haven't finished them due to so many projects one right behind the other. I have some gcode files that Khalid made for me back when I first made the Solsylva 25x37. They have no checkering. I'll try to find them today. I was using Linux at the time but I can see if they work with Mach3 easily enough. I can send you dxf files of what I created late last year if you want to start with that. I was having alignment problems with the two side machining procedure and fixture when I left it. I haven't drawn the full size 1911A grip size files yet.

I recently made a block for a local reloader that holds the powder charge bars for one of the RCBS (I think) reloading presses. It's made of three layers of MDF glued together and has 36 each 0.850" diameter round pockets in it. I would have used oak but he said MDF was fine. Wood reloading trays made with exotic woods might be attractive for some people.

[LouF]

RC airplane stuff are not in my interest anymore either since I got interested in CNC I still run RC Dragsters Funnycars which I run once a month just to get out but planes are just collecting dust I sold my Heli the planes are next..

[CarveOne]

The new version 4.0 of Aspire doesn’t have it yet, but in a couple of weeks there will be a CD arriving in the mail that will add this feature and a whole lot of other new features and lots of new solid models and tutorial videos. Watch the YouTube video that shows how the Celtic Weave Creator tool works. The software guys at Vectric Ltd are just amazing. This will make new knot designs much quicker and easier to create. Some imagination is required though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3c8...KHy2mbhzc7m9Gz

[Nickolas587]

A quick example of my decal converting. I just run the image through Vector Magic in "Automatic Mode", then use the back ground remover tool to remove all the white and I am done.

[revwarguy]

Whoa, C1 - you da man on P boxes! Yep, Aspire is a cool tool.

[CarveOne]

I was expecting to just post the link, then discovered that it automagically embedded the video here. I guess that is a feature of the new interface. That's my excuse anyway.

There are two more Aspire 4 videos on YouTube worth watching. One other gadget is for creating weave patterns. They must have been doing these just for me.

I began prepping the six panels for the next P box this morning and have no idea what it will look like at this point.

[CarveOne]

I discovered that the Celtic Weave gadget and the Extrude tool is already in my Aspire 4 download.

I've been trying to upload a sample image of a chain I created last weekend using the new Extrude tool. It's an arc vector and nine ellipse vectors that overlap and are arranged in a sine wave shape. Was a piece of cake to make the chain model.

The image upload problem seems to be fixed now. Replaced the zip file with the screen shot.

[CarveOne]

Last year I Vcarved an optical illusion called the Big Mess into MDF just to see if it was a real or imaginary effect. It was definitely real. No finish was needed to see it in normal lighting. The square and rectangular shapes are an illusion created by the way the vectors turn at 90 and 45 degrees.

For grins, I applied the new Aspire extrusion tool to it to see if it computed at all, and if the effect still works. Compare image one and four and you can see that the lighting angle causes the light and dark areas to reverse. I used a material size of 48" x 48" and scaled up the vectors so that a 1/4" diameter half circle vector used as the shape vector would form the shape. There is an option to round the sharp outside corners that is enabled.

I tried to generate a finish tool path as I do for my Celtic knot cross but it ran out of computer memory (4Gb) about halfway through the calculations. I'll try scaling it down to 24" x 24".

[CarveOne]

Here's another play project I did while we couldn't upload jpg files this week. Make one rectangle and one double arc vector. Replicate the rectangle 97 times. Arrange the rectangles so that they overlap. Use Aspire's new extrude and weave tool to make all of the rectangles "rails" and then use the double arc to create the shape of the 3D model.

We now have an example of woven chain mail that even King Arthur might be proud to wear. Well, maybe his armorer might requisition a computer and a copy of Aspire 4.0 anyway.

[CarveOne]

Another simpler example:

[cd_edwards]

Anyone else not able to see any pictures? New website is sucking..

[MillworkMike]

Nope! I have not been able to see them for a while now!! :-(

[LouF]

If your talk about C1's pictures yes I see them..


Lou

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I am using Chrome.


Lou

[CarveOne]

I see them in Firefox.

Now the interface has changed again.

Here is another version of the "Whatzit" as I call it now. I used a two rail sweep to make the elliptical frame and the Extrude Weave tool to make the center object. If anyone should want bathroom tiles designed I can do it.