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American_Flag.jpg

DESCRIPTION:

This is a picture of an American flag cutting tool path
for CNC machining. 

Posted by Robert DuCharme <bottlbob@earthlink.net>.  

The following description was provided:

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To All:

        I played around with a flag idea today in Virtual Gibbs. 
This is a screen shot of the how Gibbs' rendered what the finished
engraving toolpath would create.

        The geometry was created and proportioned to the numbers given
in the following site:

http://www.usflag.org/flag.specs.html

        It was then scaled up to obtain a 5.7" dimension in X. 

        Incidentally, the little stars took the most time with temporary
construction lines all over the place, for the stripes I just quickie
translated long rectangles on top of themselves, this of course, makes
the resulting toolpath VERY inefficient since many of the lines would be
machined twice.  It was a fun little project though.


-- 
BottleBob
http://home.earthlink.net/~bottlbob