Hello - total newb here. I model a lot in AutoCAD but mainly for architectural stuff which doesn't have a lot of curves.
My dad has recently purchased a CNC machine and I want to model up some guitar objects and try and machine them. I'm starting with a fretboard. I have drawn a planar curve that is the profile of the large end and extruded the planar curve to a solid. I have tapered the edges by drawing plines and extruding and then using the intersection tool to remove the tapered portion.
Now I am trying to use the same boolean function - intersection to subtract a solid from the fretboard to remove the fret slots. I have made one fret solid to be subtracted from the fretboard but it gives me a boolean error.
The funny thing is I have made the solid the same as I usually do, and used the boolean intersection command to remove the bottom portion so that the bottom of the fret is curved to the save radius as the top of the fret board. Then I move it down the necessary distance and use the boolean - intersection command again, and no dice. It gives me an error. Here is the file showing what I want to do. Thanks for any tips
Is the boolean command finicky? In Autocad it is straight forward and I can do this with one command and very quickly.
Cheers Peter.
PS - it's funny you cannot upload a 3dm file????