I'm a total newbie at cad, cam and cnc.
Here's my situation: I make knives, and these of course need handles.
I make typical Sami-culture knives and these handles are not simply a round piece of wood. The fact is, they have a quite complicated shape, so complicated in fact that making them by hand is very labour intensive and very difficult to make them look good. It also takes forever to make them.
In order to let you get an idea of what I'm up against let me show you an image of a typical Sami-style knife:
Let's say I make a drawing of the profile of this handle, like this:
The drawing shows (from top down) the profile viewed from the front (pointing the blade towards you). Then the knife is seen from the side, and lastly seen from the top.
Would a cad/cam-whatever software make enough sense of this 2D drawing to produce g-code or do I need to make a 3D file in cad software?
I do hope I don't need to learn how to make 3D files in a cad software.
I'm grateful for any hints.
Here's my situation: I make knives, and these of course need handles.
I make typical Sami-culture knives and these handles are not simply a round piece of wood. The fact is, they have a quite complicated shape, so complicated in fact that making them by hand is very labour intensive and very difficult to make them look good. It also takes forever to make them.
In order to let you get an idea of what I'm up against let me show you an image of a typical Sami-style knife:
Let's say I make a drawing of the profile of this handle, like this:
The drawing shows (from top down) the profile viewed from the front (pointing the blade towards you). Then the knife is seen from the side, and lastly seen from the top.
Would a cad/cam-whatever software make enough sense of this 2D drawing to produce g-code or do I need to make a 3D file in cad software?
I do hope I don't need to learn how to make 3D files in a cad software.
I'm grateful for any hints.