Contoured Surface Operation

[Anonymous]

Yet another newbie question so I apologize in advance. I have a sculpted guitar top that I have designed and I want to give a try at machining it. Before I destroy multiple pieces of wood what would be the optimal  operation to carve this out?  Thanks All!

[s.noke71]

Definitely start with an adaptive tool path then depending on the form use some of the 3d toolpaths like parallel.

If your having issues upload your file im sure somebody will help.

[paolo.bastianelli]

Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the forum!

As s.noke71 said, if you could attach to the thread (or send to my email: paolo DOT bastianelli AT autodesk DOT com) your project as an f3d file (file->export->.f3d) I'll be more than happy to look at it and advise on what toolpaths I would use to program your part.

Thanks,
Paolo

[johnswetz1982]

Try checking out this thread as an example, /serious-help-with-tool-paths/ 

and 

/don-t-understand-z-axis/