[Shanka]

HI CNC Legends,

I've seen folks selling DXF files on Etsy like the below and would like to learn how these are created as I have some ideas of my own I would like to make for personal use. Can anyone please help with how and what software I would need to create a file I could cut out on my hobby cnc.

Here is the link to the item mentioned above:

https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/1403...BoC9kYQAvD_BwE

Any help would be much appreciated.

[awerby]

First you'd make a 3D model of the lips. Then you'd intersect it with a series of evenly-spaced planes, generate curves at the intersections and save them as DXF. Then you'd create toolpaths from the DXF curves in a CAM program and nest them to cut them most efficiently out of a sheet of material. You could do the CAD work with MOI (Moment of Inspiration) https://computersculpture.com/moi/ and the CAM part with DeskProto. https://computersculpture.com/deskproto . Of course, there are lots of other programs that could also do this.

[Vlod]

You can do slicing in Vectric and create a tool path or save in DFX.