I apologise if I am posting in the wrong place, but I have taken numerous beginner tutorials and searched the blender manual and am still stymied. I intend to use blender cam in my home CNC shop, and need something more complex than Sketchup. What I need to know for about 90% of my work, is how to extrude a section of one shape (usually a rectangular board) with another shape, such as a non piercing circle (circle doesn’t go all the way through) or smaller rectangle, or some other shape useful when making musical instruments (and not always Guitars and basses, I make some weird stuff).
I have tried the knife, extrude, join, and all other sorts of ideas from the tutorials and am not getting anywhere. currently I am trying to “route” a slot with rounded edges in a flat board shape.
Easy way to add shapes is to make all in one 2d curve object. After convert it to mesh and extrude your shapes. I think topology not matter at all with cnc, like 3dprint. Try boolean also.
Wow, thanks for the responses! I’ll try to answer the questions:
Modron, I don’t understand “subsurfacing”. Hope the pic helps
DCBloodHound, pic attached
Hero, I’ll look into that, thanks.
RickyBlender, What is an SVN?
