Tiling operation

Blake · February 13, 2022, 11:13am

Had to use a tiling operation for the size of this piece. I broke up the CAM into 4 separate programs which all had the WCS in Fusion 360 indexed 12 inches apart since the piece is 48” wide. As you can see I still need to run the last program.

vicious1 · February 13, 2022, 4:56pm

Oh man I love this! And I love that you loved it so much you showed us before you ran the last section, . I would do the same thing for sure!

robertbu · February 13, 2022, 5:02pm

Beautiful piece. I love the detail. I assume this is a 1/8" bit and 1/4" plywood?

Blake · February 13, 2022, 5:42pm

1.5mm bit, 1/4” Baltic Birch plywood.

mbamberg · February 13, 2022, 6:26pm

Did you design the pattern, or was it something you were able to find online?

MB

Blake · February 13, 2022, 6:40pm

I found it online.

mbamberg · February 13, 2022, 6:41pm

Paid product or freely available? I’d really like to cut one of these. Please share the link, if you can remember where you found it.

MB

olijouve · February 13, 2022, 7:01pm

Maybe you can try something like silhouette birch tree on google image to get close results.

In my mind this is a piece of art that should stay unique, at least in that form/material as the design can be found on Amazon as a frame wall art

Blake · February 14, 2022, 2:12pm

I did a google image search for “birch tree silhouette” and then converted the image to a SVG with Inkscape. Once I had the SVG I was able to do all the CAM in Fusion 360.

mbamberg · February 14, 2022, 6:04pm

Thanks, Blake. I’ll not get to it before next fall/winter. Soaring season is coming up and I’m all consumed getting my glider ready and hopefully getting a BUNCH of hours flying it.

Mike

DougJoseph · February 16, 2022, 6:50am

Great job!

brenavich980 · February 17, 2022, 11:40am

Smart way to solve the problem. Didn’t even know tiling was a thing!

Blake · March 2, 2022, 1:53pm

All finished!

jeffeb3 · March 2, 2022, 2:29pm

That looks awesome.

Mattk331 · March 3, 2022, 12:18am

Awesome!

dobieag · March 3, 2022, 1:49pm

Yeah that’s really well done!

davem · March 11, 2022, 9:34pm

Very nice, what are the dimensions?

Blake · March 11, 2022, 11:18pm

27” x 48”

Boatshop · March 17, 2022, 12:32am

Blake, beautiful job! I was inspired by that and grabbed a similar picture and did a similar job.

This one is a lot simpler, less branches, etc but my wife grabbed it and hung out in her office when I showed it to her…

I also recently found the same picture you used and set up the cam. About 55 minutes for a 18"x18". I need to figure out tiling in estlcam. I think I actually have to set it up in inkscape and process two jobs in estlcam.