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Hi. I have been using ViaCad for years. Mostly using it for 2D stuff with a little bit of 3D thrown in there. So I have a friend who I have been making little bits and pieces for his home. The stuff like lattice work and the little timber buttons for the veranda.
Anyways. I was asked if I can make 1m lengths of the product in the picture attached. Original is tin, but I reckon I can make it out of timber. All of it (the design) I can do except for the weaving around the buttons. Is anyone on this forum keen to have a crack? I am willing to pay via Paypal or Bitcoin for an STI file of this so I can cut lengths with my CNC machine. I can supply good drawings 2D.
Darn. We get confident until we realise its just too hard haha.
Anyways I would love to hear from a 3D guru and perhaps make this very cool decorative piece.
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Boydage
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More efficient and reliable to take a mold off the piece you've got and cast copies in acrylic-modified gypsum.
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Thanks for the reply. Sorry I dont agree. I can cut this out on a cnc router way faster. Only need 3m. Not worth making a mould, the sample I have is not uniform either.
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I don't know how old the piece you are trying to copy is, but the chances are that it, or the original pattern, was carved by hand.
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It boils down to how much you're proposing to pay for your commission. You've got a length of the original, do you need a lookalike or an exact copy? You could get a reasonable model yourself by taking appropriately-lit photos and using PowerPack's heightfield generator or the ZSurf 4 freeware heightfield generator to create an .igs version, but if you're wanting a CAD modeller to make an adjustable parametric model I'd charge you USD 400 for my time. You might want to try Airtasker or an equivalent to find a lower bid.
BTW what happened to the other pic? Not seeing it....
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I think the best thing here is get it scanned. You could literally spend hours doing this. I like a challenge but would it turn out the same as what you wanted? Probably not. There is a program called Regard3d, this works on photogrammetry. Take a sh*t load of pictures fire it through the software and it builds a model for you. All free, and I would say 100% faster than trying to remodel it.
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