Hello OneFinity Owners, I am hoping to get some help. I am in the middle of an interesting real life project involving my kitchen cabinet doors. I needed to shorten the height of a cabinet, the cabinet work is done but now I have the doors to do. I plan to cut about 6 inches off the bottom of the door and then use my X50 to replicate the bottom profile I cut off. I was able to design a first draft replica in VCarve but I did it using the rectangle tool and an offset. Now I do not know how to cut just the bottom line of the profile and the two bottom internal radius corners. I would love any advice on how to cut just the part of the design inside of the very squiggly green line in the photo. Thanks in advance!
My approach would be to not alter the original door (if that is what you are planning) but to fabricate a new door. With all of the variables of exact part location on automation, ect. it is going to make it a really difficult make the mod look seamless.
Make some test cuts on foam board to validate the process as you move forward though.
Is there a reason it would not be easier to make the modification with manual shop tools instead?
I think VCarve lets you chose your boundary for a tool path based on another vector. I.e. Draw a box covering what you want to carve, then do a tool path within the box. It would be in the tool path settings, near the top.
Phil, great idea on making the whole door, As for the conventional tools… If the raised panel had square corners this project would be done! HAHA, I honestly do not have the woodworking experience to understand how to route this profile(the internal radius corners) with my conventional tools.
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Thanks for the reply! I will research that too. It is unbelievable how many times I have run into a challenge designing something and then learn Vector created a tool to solve that problem.