Scanned image
- This design was milled from two directions - virtually eliminating hand carving. The only hand wax work was smoothing the slight staircasing texture left in places by the raster milling process.
- Finished casting showing front of piece.
- The back side, in this case a sprued model for a rubber mold
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Modeling notes
- Basic model of a tattoo flash inspired star.
- Designed as a belly jewel, stainless hardware in blue
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Model preparation for milling
- Milling strategy was to rough cut the back side then flip wax 180° and rough the front side. Pause to change to a finishing tool, finish mill the front, flip then finish mill the back.
- Milling is a subtractive process, the model has to be visualizied with respect to the initial wax block.
- Shaded view showing adaptationd, with different parts coloured for visualization
- Green cylinders are support structures, orange and pink planes serve to limit the milling depth
- Tool path g-code file incrementaly built using StlWork with rotary axis moves manualy added
- After milling the supports are removed
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