Blogs
BMW Concept Car Revisited!
Interested in a sneak peek at what it takes to create a concept car? Check out this blast from the past! Art Center College of Design students were tasked with reinventing the interior and exterior of a BMW 1 Series 5-door SUV not available in the states, while also...
Batter up!
This past week we were busy with our MultiCam. Jeff Hartman, one of the creators of EnRoute software was here in my studio. He was here to develop and test an interface to program and run the fourth axis of our router.
It’s Raining Software!
Well after a long blog hiatus, I’m back and happy to report there are some exciting things happening in the land of CAD. In the past few weeks there has been some very exciting news on the software front. First, out of left field, Autodesk suddenly announced it was going to resume development of T-Splines for Rhino! The first news of this came from the T-Splines message board, where none other than Autodesk CEO Carl Bass chimed in and informed the community of the decision. That pretty much made my jaw drop to the floor. This means that there will be future releases of T-Splines for Rhino, with new tools and functionality. Really, I truly did not see that coming. Also, in the past few days they put out a release candidate for Rhino V5. You can download that here. There are some really nice fixes and upgrades in that release – most notably for symmetry and exact insertion of geometry.
A Spectacular Metal Finish For The Long Run
Nathan Betts, owner of Final Touch Custom Millwork in Orangeville, ON, CNC routed a sign for MakeItMetal, the Canadian distributor of the LuminOre line of products. For this project, Nathan routed PBLT-15 and sent it to MakeItMetal, where they applied the LuminOre...
A Large Plug For A Famous Hand!
Everyone at Coastal Enterprises Company liked this previous story so much we decided to share it again for our newer readers! Who do you call if you're a discerning family-themed cruise line looking to build a state of the art water slide featuring a signature...
Sign Pro's In Chantilly, VA – M & M Signs & Graphics
Josh Guevara, Head Fabricator at M & M Signs & Graphics in Chantilly, VA recently made a sign for the Rainbow Child Development Center. Having worked with Precision Board Plus HDU for many years, M & M Signs has become quite proficient with Precision Board...
Complex pub sign – part four
I forgot to grab screen captures of the small bottom oval but it was a flat relief, modified with a second layer using the dome tool. Then the ‘Q’ was added to the top of that with a 0.15″ height. It was then merged highest with the previous base relief.
Complex pub sign – part three
With the background of the sign done it was time to start in on the scroll and lettering.
Complex pub sign – part two
The pub sign started like pretty much every project.