There is a lot more to learn about what exactly you want to do - and about how it can be done.Īspire, Cut3D are the '3D' things in Vectric - but they are not 'full' 3D as is your lamp. I have also inquired about them for home and did a bunch of investigation about what the rotary does on a home hobby machine.

I do not own a rotary axis - but I work with them at my workplace. In an axis swaping case - the rotary axis will rotate 360 dregrees one direction - then back again - not spin like a lathe. Is it truly a rotary, in that the rotary can be set to rotate like a lathe - OR -is it a rotary axis that swaps rotary motion in place of one of the flat axis's - like 'Y'. The issue might be in HOW the rotary axis can perform in the machine of selection. Still 2 axis and that could be done in cut2D The side of the cutter would cut the profile. More could be said about plane selection and arcs generated in the z-x plane.Ģ) position the cutter to the side of the rotary axis and perifery cut the profile. It's a movement of 2 axis directions - 2 axis. There are a couple of ways to do it.ġ) position a ball nose cutter centerline directly above the centerline of the rotary axis spindle - then move in a 'X' and 'Z' path - to contour the lamp shape - that is 3D - 'sortof'. I think, that you just want to turn the lamp shape. In your picture - there is a lot of what looks like segmented blank - then turned to a lamp shape. You would go into Aspire if you wanted to create a model - then create the toolpath. Cut3D can convert an STL model into toolpath.

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