Thread: Heart CNC Shark Carving - Family Woodworking

First you need to know that I have a long way to go on 3D modeling, so I downloaded the Heart 3D model (you can download free or buy 3D models), the heart was a freebie. Next you upload into Cut3D to create your toolpaths for the 3D model, which most of that is done by the computer, the part of this that will come with practice is setting tool plug rate, freerate, pass depths and stepover. This all depends on the wood type. I went through about 8 foot of pine trying to get this right.

Next step is to import the 3D model into vCarve Pro to add the text this took a little time to get the text to follow a curve.

Then the last step in creating the job is to select a post processor to convert the drawing to GCode that the Shark's controller can understand.

Now the carving begins, I had three toolpaths to run, first a roughing toolpath to remove most of the unneeded wood and then the finish toolpath to do the finished carving and a text toolpath. The carving time was 2 hours and 10 minutes with two bit changes.

Finally I cut it out of the wood with my scrollsaw and sanded and finished.

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