ranachronos opened this issue on Dec 30, 2000 ยท 7 posts
ranachronos posted Sat, 30 December 2000 at 12:39 PM
Has anyone out there tried outputting a poser figure to a CNC milling machine? One should be able to carve a figure in wood, or marble, or wax for metal casting.
JeffH posted Sat, 30 December 2000 at 4:22 PM
I had heard of people trying to make plastic action figures in a similar way, but I don't know if they were successful.
bloodsong posted Sat, 30 December 2000 at 4:38 PM
heyas; i'm pretty sure i've seen this somewhere... i THINK it had to do with rhino. but this actually involved doing a boolean with a cube to cut a mold. i dunno nothin about no cnc milling machine. why wouldn't it work?
Kevin posted Sat, 30 December 2000 at 5:11 PM
Well, there is this minor bit about scale. . . .
wyrwulf posted Sat, 30 December 2000 at 5:18 PM
I think what bloodsong is talking about is in #D Artist Magazine Issue #42. The author of the article made a "goblin" with Carrara and Poser, then took the head into Rhino to convert it to an STL file so it could be made into a wax model for lost wax casting. The URL for the company that does the wax model making is http://www.protoshape.com
Marque posted Sat, 30 December 2000 at 6:03 PM
Yup, and that magazine is still on the stands, just saw it today. Marque
ranachronos posted Sat, 06 January 2001 at 7:59 PM
Oops - been crazy here - almost forgot to say thanks to you all.