3DS Max to CNC? -need help
Hello,
My employer requested that I build a robot to scale in 3DS max.
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The design has been built around the idea of cutting and bending shapes out of a sheet of thermal plastic. We are using ViaCAD as our CAD software in the office. I can easily import 3D files from one software to another via the .obj extension.
We are looking for a way to take these custom shapes from 3DS Max (in red), and flatten the shapes so that we can get them cut by CNC.
Any help is appreciated.
KyFer
My employer requested that I build a robot to scale in 3DS max.
[IMG][/img]
The design has been built around the idea of cutting and bending shapes out of a sheet of thermal plastic. We are using ViaCAD as our CAD software in the office. I can easily import 3D files from one software to another via the .obj extension.
We are looking for a way to take these custom shapes from 3DS Max (in red), and flatten the shapes so that we can get them cut by CNC.
Any help is appreciated.
KyFer
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In this thread, it's basically the same concept but with bending foam sheets, but there's a loss of precision if that's important to your project. The basic idea is that they don't cut explicitly along the lines of a low poly model (like in your screen), but visualize the curves and shapes for a higher one without doing the extra 3d work for the rounded shapes.
I showed Pepakura to my boss. It looks like it will be the solution that we will use.