[wood elf]

New to CNC milling. Just bought a K2 3925, vcarvepro and mach3 software. I've handcrafted wooden toys and furniture for years but am wanting to do some carving and signs for art and craft shows. I've run most of the models that came w/my software and a few others I designed but am now interested in finding affordable 2d and 3d models primarily toys, carvings and art.

Any suggestions?

[yohudi]

New to CNC milling. I've handcrafted wooden toys and furniture for years ..... now interested in finding affordable 2d and 3d models primarily toys, carvings and art.

Any suggestions?

Hi there,

You have similar background and interests to my own. For carving and art resources I suggest regular visits to cnc4free.org... I host 25+ FREE Art or carving type models/reliefs every month, also 10 art type .DXFs... content is changed monthly, usually around the 15th or so... FreeMill is a good free option for relief carving if you dont have existing software to generate the 3D carving code

You might also be interested in learning to create your own relief or carving type content from bitmaps using FREE tools.. there are many FREE utilities that can perform this function to a very high standard.. it's just a matter of tuning the input images.. see the chapter 9 overview in the 'Tutorial' section of the same site.

For Toy's I'd reccomend a prowl of the FREE plans type sites.. it's usually fairly easy to adapt this kind of plan for CNC use.. thats how I made the ride on toy's pictured below... The plans were essentially an influence rather than a blueprint for the final toys, but they are a useful starting point for construction techniques etc. Again There are quite a few links to this kind of (FREE) plan on the links page at http://cnc4free.org

The design process employed making the motorbike type toy is shown in the chapter 13 overview as a 'CNC_Toolkit' case study. Gmax /CnC_toolkit is ideal for this kind of work. You can build the toy virtually using spline outlines or imported .DXF as starting point.. then apply the same oulines/splines to generate the cutting code.. It's an excellent, FREE, integrated solution...
hope this helps

Danny

[yohudi]

To anyone interested really...

July updates are now online at http://cnc4free.org

Some examples below..

TTFN

Danny

[pike88]

Brent at Vortech just sent me a free CD of cd clipart from http://www.vectorclip3d.com/ I will see if I can load some of them up here.

Also these guys http://www.vectorart3d.com/ have some cool stuff. They even provide free 3D software that allows you to download the clip-art and then cut it on your CNC router.


Their 3D models are around $25 each

My Equipment:
Gerber Edge II www.gspinc.com
Gerber envision
Vortech Router www.vortechcnc.com
Roland Versacamm www.rolanddg.com

My Software:
Corel X3
Vectric Vcarve Pro www.vectric.com
Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
Mach www.machsupport.com
Gerber Omega

[pike88]

Just found this post below. Looks like some intricate stuff.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=84878

My Equipment:
Gerber Edge II www.gspinc.com
Gerber envision
Vortech Router www.vortechcnc.com
Roland Versacamm www.rolanddg.com

My Software:
Corel X3
Vectric Vcarve Pro www.vectric.com
Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
Mach www.machsupport.com
Gerber Omega

[yohudi]

Their 3D models are around $25 each

Hi there,

I think you've demonstrated the whole point of this thread very clearly....

It's well known that you can BUY 3D Carving type clipart. $25 per file might seem very reasonable if it's paying work or you are well established in business . For the CNC newbie, hobbyist or small business these costs can be more difficult to justify.

That's why I started this thread... FREE 3D carving resources are few and far between... Evidenced by the few links to actual content.... I had hoped there would be more posts linking to FREE content...

I think the costs of the software people apply to this task discourages FREE distribution. This is not an issue in my case as all the 3D carving content distributed at http://cnc4free.org is created using FREE tools.

Links to FREE content is the purpose of this thread.

TTFN

Danny

[Bradt]

Great idea for a site. Free is hard to beat, especially when you're experimenting. Looks like some cool stuff there.

[ghebard]

Great idea for a post yohudi,

Pike, Thanks for the heads up.
I just spoke to Lee at Vortech. He is going to send me out a disk of clipart. when I get it I'll share here if I can. I dont want to break any copyright laws!!:rainfro:

[Buzzy233]

www.customdxffiles.com says he'll email free files

[yohudi]

To anyone interested really...

August updates are now online at http://cnc4free.org

Some examples below..

TTFN

Danny

[keelhauled]

Good work Danny. Keep em coming!

[tsinos]

Hi thank you for sharing your files,
This is what i make. I will soon upload finishing product.

Regards from Greece.

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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8cI...it?usp=sharing

[bukky633@yahoo.]

Danny Great thread thank you and your site is wonderful as well!!



I have meet James Booth the owner of vectorart3d and can say he is outstanding! He has great 3d models as well and does great custom work.

Hey pike88 I have a Vortech as well how is yours doing??

Nick

[pike88]

Danny Great thread thank you and your site is wonderful as well!!



I have meet James Booth the owner of vectorart3d and can say he is outstanding! He has great 3d models as well and does great custom work.

Hey pike88 I have a Vortech as well how is yours doing??

Nick

Hi Nick,
Our Vortech is great. We are talking with brent at vortech about getting another one with the Tool Changer.. We are looking at this one right now. http://vortechrouters.com/toolchangerspecs.html nice router.

I think I saw some of your pictures on the vortech router forum.. Nice stuff.

[15mgtar]

To anyone interested really...

July updates are now online at http://cnc4free.org

Some examples below..

TTFN

Danny

Are these for free? I can't find in the download area.

[yohudi]

Hi there,

As it says on the Info page linking to the public 2D and 3D downloads....

"Most of this content is available to non-sponsors via this page until the next update. "

So it's there for 30 days or so... after which it's replaced by the updated content.. It pays to visit regularly...

All of the content remains online to those who have sponsored the site directly or by one-off purchase of the ebook.... It would not be online at all were it not for their contributions...

Hope this helps

Danny