The day my bigger workshop is built, i can get a lathe.
Right now i got enough machines lying around 
Also i need wood to keep my workshop warm in winter and maslow gets me plenty of useless cutoffs.
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We gave our son a pirate ship playground 
for his birthday. The accessories included were a little mainstream to my taste. So my plan was to create a pirate themed shield to replace the boring shields which were included.
I carved a shield lay-out into a 9mm sheet of plywood and subsequently cut a pirate from an image I found on the worldwide web (converted a .png to .svg). All the drawings and CAM where done in Fusion.
Turns out that according to my wife itās not a pirate ship but a viking ship
. For me that was just another reason to spend a couple of ours with Fusion/my Maslow 
So tommorow Iām going to pimp the playground. I doubt that I will ever get the credits from my 5-year-old, but I really enjoyed creating it.
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on my list as well. Let us know when you got it running
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Donāt be to sure about that, with my first daughter (3 years now) the first things she learned were, belgian chocolate tastes good and daddy can make anything, they even enjoy playing with the sawdust 
I (try to) make all their presents myself, and i really feel they apreciate it as much as i enjoy making it.
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Managed to get some foam cut last night. Not truly coordinated XYZ, but the end result is a nice 3D cut. The variability in finish was due to playing with the router speed control. I found that faster worked best (around 20K). I was using a 1/4" ball end mill with a 1" LOC. I mention the LOC because the depth of cut was somewhat deeper than 1", and I decided to forego an initial pocketing cut that would have stepped the foam down in preparation for the contouring cuts, the result of which was that the bit was plunged into the foam deeper than the blades and tended to rip the surface. If I were to need a nice finish for this project, I would add that pocket back in. As it was, it took a couple hours to finish this cut (and Iāve got another one to do) so adding time was low on the list if the result was acceptable, which it is. THe massive amount of z-axis movement, even with a quick z-axis, mad ethis project drag on. In the end, though, I am pretty pleased with the results. Also, this foam is specifically sold as being made to be milled, though it feels like regular foam.
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How did you get the 3d cut?
itās a 3D path created by Inventor HSM CAM (the CAM plug in for Inventor). With the Maslow post processor it parses out to a lot of small x and z moves across the half circle pocket. I am not home right now, but I can try to get a screen shot of the paths later.
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That is interesting, it would be nice to be able to do XYZ movements at times.
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The maslow will do XYZ movements (there was a problem with curves, but I believe
thatās been fixed now)
itās up to your CAM software to issue them.
David Lang
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Iām still using v1.06. I wasnāt sure if that version had coordinated moves yet, but whatever it does have works well.
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I thought we couldnāt 3d carve?
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Iāve had no problems at all using fusionās v-carve, which requires a lot of coordinated xyz movements. Itās really slow though.
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at one point we couldnāt, but now we can.
we donāt do it well, but thatās due to the very slow Z axis motion.
David Lang
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Cool, Iāll give it a try.
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Before I knew what it was, that was what I was thinking as well, a cozy little lounger that you could sink into and read a book.
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Your build just inspired me. Our robotics team has drawers of tools and keeping that stuff organized is a constant chore. I would like to do something like this:
Caption: a tool drawer at a test facility, where keeping track of your tools is the difference between a good run and a destroyed jet engine.
Seeing your project made me realize this could be done with the Maslow. Another chance to play with our toy!
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I cut today the delivery bag of an oscilloscope.
Hoping to discover noise on wires. Wish me luck, please.
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I have that very same scope and it works beautifully! Good luck on your hunt!
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Dang! I am excited. I hope you learn a lot.
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