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My X-Carve first project

Well not my first ( I used the 2d drawings from inventables for the clamps to make a couple of clamps) but the most in-depth and coolest one to date.

I designed a hat and mitten rack for a friends children in SolidWorks, it provides 10 hangers per child for gloves, mittens, boots, or hats. It was designed around the constraints that it must all be machined from one 31" x 31" piece of wood. This includes the two halves and the base or feet. The two halves interlock to form what looks like a tree and that allows it to be small while having plenty of space for all of the drying needs of two small children.

V Carve Pro 7.0 is used for creating the code for my x carve to run in Mach4


I spaced out all the pieces in Solid Works by 7.5 mm to insure a 1/4 end mill could pass between all the parts without nicking and damaging any of the parts. I then used 1/4  Yonico end mill at 30ipm with a step down of 1.0 mm and a 40% step over to profile all of the pieces. I also used the Tabs function in V Carve to add a 1 inch tab that is 1.5 mm thick evenly spaced around the project every 4 inches, so that it would allow me to break these off and sand them smooth after the cutting was complete. 

 I also added the kids names to be machined into the halves so that I could paint in the pocket before sealing the project for water proofing.

The total run time was about 1 hour and 20 minutes.






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