Hack of the Week No.3


The great thing about our mini-projects is that you can mix and match the models or add in your own.

Our weekly mini-project hack uses models from 3 different projects! 

Add in raised or v-carved text for that special "Hockey Mom" in your life!!!  

You know Mother's Day is just around the bend... hint, hint.

Have you hacked a mini-project?  Email us a screenshot of the layout or an image of the finished piece and spread the inspiration!  

 Have fun, be safe and let the chips fly!!!!

The CNCminiProjects Team!

Spreading the word - Indiana Rob’s 3D Sign Workshop

CNCminiProjects is very happy to be a very small part of Indiana Rob’s 3D Sign Workshop this year.  The infamous Indiana Rob himself asked us if we were willing to give a little something to be raffled away to a lucky student... and this is what we came up with:

We hand made 2 small boxes that had one of our models CNC on the top - The boot from the Western Saloon mini-project and the rose from the Rose Tile mini-project. 

The top of the box swiveled open to reveal a USB drive.  On the drive was the full mini-project that the model on the box top was taken from.   

Not a bad little prize... EH! 

We also sent along a few stickers for the students to take home.  We are hoping that we might get a few pictures of the students, a sticker and their own CNC machine.  If we do we will put them in a draw for another free mini-project! 

On top of that we issued a $5.00 discount code to be used on a mini-project purchase by the months end.  The discount code was placed on the back of our brand new business cards... for easy reference! 

From what we have heard the 3D Sign Camp was a hit... lots learn't and some great techniques shared. 

As you can see on their web site plans are in the works for the 2014 event... these guys don't let the chips settle!  

Good job Indiana Rob!!!!  

You are defiantly "Weekend CNC Warrior" approved!  

 

Rose Tiles - Broken - No.1 - UPDATE

Hello Weekend CNC Warrior!

It has come to our attention that some of our customers had slight issues with how the Rose Tile No.1 mini-project measured up.  The 2 tiles did not line up perfect and required a bit of jigging in order for them to look right and the transition between the tiles was not as smooth as it should have been.

We have taken that feedback and re-created the 2 broken tiles so that when merged together you will get a much better result.

Also we discovered that converting our ArtCAM files to Aspire is tricky when you are dealing with objects that need to line up perfect.  So we re-create the Aspire 3Dclip files directly in Aspire to make this work much better.

We do have a tip or two that will help when merging the tiles together:

- Overlap the tiles by a slight bit

- Jog/nudge/move the tiles left or right/up or down by a slight bit if you still notice anything off.

Thanks to the valuable feedback we received we can deliver a super end product to you.  Thanks for all of the feedback keep it coming!

If you have purchased the Rose Tile No.1 mini-project in the past you should have already received an email from us with a link to the updated files.  If not please let us know and we will be sure to be in contact.  We have also updated the full mini-project files so when new customer purchase this mini-project the will get the latest files.

Thanks again and keep safe!