Carving a spherical Earth with epoxy oceans 4 sided 3 D rotary CNC routing with the Shapeoko
By Dennis Van Hoof, from Top o Arts This video shows the process of 4sided CNC routing a spherical 3D Earth with a diameter of 200 mm (8 inch), using my manual rotary setup for the Shapeoko XXL. The Earth was carved from a solid piece of tree trunk with a diameter of 250 to 300 mm (10 to 12 inch), and the oceans were filled with a layer of 5 mm (1, 5 inch) epoxy resin. Check out the YouTube video where I introduce manual rotary CNC routing with the Shapeoko XXL by carving a koi fish Software used: Meshmixer to create the 3D Earth STL files Vectric VCarve to generate the tool paths UGS Platform to send the Gcode to the CNC Materials used: Tree trunk of 250300 mm (1012 inch) in diameter and 375 mm (15 inch) in length 1, 4 steel octagonal rotary plates Epoxy resin and different blue dyes from the Epoxy Resin Store 3 inch roughing bit: Amana Tool end mill, 452103 3 inch finishing bit: Amana Tool ball nose, 46286 Music: Alex Dee Gladenko Bea
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