Hi everyone, I tried it all, I had this neck digital scanned but I can't machine some of it because of the faceted surfaces over running other ones. Any help would be great.
I tried it all, ha ha. Solidworks, Meshcam Geomagic Freecad Catia Mastercam AutoCAD Hypermesh and Maya, I even tried some take 100 pics of it and it will be a solid software. Any help will be great. This is my Catia attempt with auto surface recognition.
The real plus side, is that you can do each section of your neck parametric, and link a CATProcess to it.
I had it configured like that, basicaly you edit a profile section (say you want a Fender Eric Clapton V-shape neck).
So, edit profile, update model. Update process. Output APT. Post-process, and get G-Code. CNC machine.
Same applie to scale length, width at nut, heel...you could even configure patterns in catia to have 6, 7, and 8 string models that would uptade automaticaly.
Thank you Daniel, I have the blueprints for it all but I'm sure I won't be able to nail the Volute radiuses, and intersect them.I can also do a silhouette boundary as shown below and build, but still can't do the transitions 2 rail sweeps or something, too tough for me.
I'm not sure how to send a pm on here Daniel, but here is a better blueprint. I don't need the fretboard, just the neck. In fact, all I really need is the back radius side of the neck and volute's matching my neck to head and heel sides. Something like below only just where the cutter needs to go on the radiuses.