Hello! I’ve made a design of a ships helm. Ultimately I want to be able to import my high quality STL into the software for my CNC machine. But I’m stuck! My complete design is done. However, I need to deconstruct it in Shapr3D in order to have the component parts to upload into my CNC software…

I would upload the shapr file but, as a new user, it’s telling me I’m not allowed.

You can upload the file to Google Drive, iCloud or Dropbox and just share the link. We’ll take a look.

On it! https://www.dropbox.com/s/0o7wgzq0vrx3lzg/bosn1.shapr?dl=0

Yes, it does. I’ll take a look shortly.

Currently you can’t directly do what you want. The workaround for this is to create a copy of the objects you are subtracting with, and hide those objects / groups. Do the subtract and unhide the previously copied object. Here’s a quick video about it:

Gabor, Thank you for the quick reply! I understand your instructions. Ideally this wouldn’t be necessary but hopefully the option to retain the removed object will be made available in the future for us wood workers. By the way, I sent you the wrong link however your explanation still holds true…

There is another weird problem when I try to “subtract”. The right side of the wheel on the right is removing more than I think it should. The left side of the right wheel is correct… Any ideas?[0F38560C-E6DB-478C-8E4A-1F8CC474083C]

Also, this my second ever CAD project. So, please tell me how I can make it better if you have ideas!

Here’s my extractions. I’m concerned about the lack of symmetry and consistency under the center medallion where the handles meet. Clearly I am not doing this right… any advice? https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cbfr3k1zg2uhh2/helm%202.shapr?dl=0

Setting up my design for CNC wood machine

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Claudio November 9, 2018, 10:57am 20

I’m doing CNC woodworks too. @jesseko suggested here a feature to “Export faces to SVG”, that I think would be really useful. What do you think?

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