right side or top side when drawing?

 From:  Michael Gibson
4950.62 In reply to 4950.60 
Hi Tony,

> Question- On post 25 is a drawing I attempted that had the cut
> out shape. If I wanted to just draw it to cut the rough 2D shape,
> would this work?

Well that would work but the result would be exactly what you see there, you would get a shape with totally flat vertical sides that looks sort of like what you get when you push a cookie cutter into a piece of dough. That's a pretty different kind of shape than the actual sculptured type form that you really want to get though.

So even though that will work it will construct a shape that's pretty different from what you really need.


> What tools would I use to get the outline drawn
> accurately for cutting?

I'm not sure if I understand this part - if you've already drawn the shape and have the model how you want it then you're finished with the drawing part, then you take the model into your CAM program and have it generate toolpaths.

Do you mean that you need some guidance on how to work the Vectric Cut3D software? I think that Vectric has their own forums over here: http://www.vectric.com/forum/ if you need help working Cut3D you probably want to ask over there.

- Michael