it's mill[ing] time

started out with a grandiose idea of making leaves, replete with stems, veins, and softly turned tips. just produced a line drawing in coreldraw. john took one look at my file and laughed maniacally. seems i didnt take into account the size of the bits, so the design was a little too detailed with tiny resolution.

simplified the leaf by just drawing the outline (nixed the veins) and drew a thicker stem. here is the dxf.

wanted to get a little more adventurous, stepping into the next dimension, so created an adorable ladybug in 3dstudiomax. learned that for proper dxf export, you must convert everything to an editable mesh, and can probably save some headache by just creating a block to represent your cast and doing a boolean difference with the object, modeling the mold itself.

files for my ladybug!
the dxf
screenshot of the actual intended object
screenshot of the inverted cast