Probing Issue

[cedars]

I have a customer who needed me to duplicate the sash pictured below. I of course took it as a probing challenge for my shop bot.

The probe touched every 1/8" across the entire sash. After 8.5 hours probing, I had a successful file image. I went into PartWorks to see if I needed to alter the image through the node editing function. I opened the file to edit the nodes and only saw 43,000 nodes lined up like a piece of graph paper. No way to see the image of the sash to know what I should smooth out etc..

There are some images of the test run of the sash as it was probed, since I couldn't figure out how to edit the nodes.

Obviously, I need help to figure out how to smooth things out. The molding profile is a concern to me. I hope I am able to get a consistent profile throughout. I think I am close but I'm stuck. I'm glad I chose something simple for my first probe attempt!

I'm looking forward to all the help I can get.

Thanks

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[erik_f]

1/8" is too big of a span if you want it to turn out well. I think there is a shopbot to dxf converter somewhere out there...you might be able to do it with that.

[stevem]

This a job for tracing, not probing.

Tracing a .jpg will result in accurate vectors and make for a much more efficient tool path. In addition, tracing will only take about 30 minutes.

[myknmel]

Ok guys, and gals, I need some help. I am ready to take what I did on Partworks to the shopbot. I have it on a thumb drive. Can I just plug it in? Will it just come up in the Shopbot program?
Thanks
Melody

[jerry_stanek]

after you plug in the thumb drive bring your shopbot program up and click on load file and go to the thumb drive folder and choose the file you made.

[frank134]

steve I'm new here. can you tell me the differanc between using the probe and tracing. Is tracing like using a digitizer? Or do you mean trying to redraw the item.

thank you
frank