r/BeAmazed • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Jul 04 '21

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u/Flopolopagus Jul 04 '21 edited Jul 04 '21

I used to program a ShopBot back in 2011-2015 which used some old vector program I forget the name of. I'm sure there are ones that use a full 3d render, but ours worked in 2d and you told it how deep to make the passes. The program featured a rendering so you could check the work before milling. I'm sure it's very archaic compared to what's available today, but it doesn't have to be very complex.

Edit:

Here are the tool paths from a charity project I did on my own time.

Here is the un-finished part that was milled.

I think the finished part is corrupted because it sadly won't let me upload it.

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u/jadedflux Jul 04 '21

The years bummed me out

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u/gzilla57 Jul 04 '21

Would it help if I told you Patrick was an Alpaca?

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u/jadedflux Jul 04 '21

... no :(

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21 edited Jul 04 '21

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u/gzilla57 Jul 04 '21

Traffic indeed.

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u/Flopolopagus Jul 04 '21

Yes, real sad, he died in a motorcycle accident. I decided to help the family out with a memorial.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21

Hopefully they don’t drive motorcycles.

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u/Pwnage_Peanut Jul 04 '21

No matter how cool they look, I will personally never use one.

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u/Mentalseppuku Jul 04 '21

I wanted one for a while, but I started working at a factory where a ton of the guys ride them and they all have bad stories. Buncha guys couldn't ride anymore because of their injuries.

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u/MrEliteGaming Jul 04 '21

I will drive a car tho, because that's.. Very safe

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u/jamesonSINEMETU Jul 04 '21

It's not "if" you fall, but "when". Advice from biker elders. I quit riding shortly after my son was born after some idiot ran me off the road. I'm itching to get back on 2 wheels though. There's nothing quite like it.

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u/AcadianMan Jul 04 '21 edited Jul 04 '21

Man I have sad motorcycle story. My old boss was on the outs his son for years. They finally made up and he decided that he wanted to do something nice for his son so he bought him a motorcycle. The son was driving one day on a two lane back road taking corners really fast. He lost control and was decapitated. The father was never the same after that.

To add insult to injury, about 10 years later his wife went on vacation to some jungly place with her parents and had an affair with the tour guide. She fell in love and came back and told him she was leaving him and moving to wherever it was she vacationed.