There’s not much routing in this project but it sure was a fun one! I thought everyone would enjoy today’s adventure. -dan
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Designing in EnRoute
If I have to do a scale drawing for a project I will most often start inside EnRoute. It’s the only cad program I have and it is also easy to use as a drawing program. This past week I was asked to design a gate for a client
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.
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.
Complex pub sign – part one
Last week I received a request to build a file for another pub sign for the same fellow I did some for a while back. It is not often I build files that I do not design and route but Dave’s work is just so fine and challenging that I find it hard to resist. Dave is in the process of building a new building to house a router of his own
Kel-Mor signs
Because the little dump truck is to be paraded out onto the ice between periods at local hockey games it is important that the customer’s name be extra large on the side. Lettering on the doors simply wouldn’t have worked
Just a few details on the router
On some projects we use our router for only small bits of the whole. A current project, a small dump truck built over a golf cart chassis is a perfect example.