check this out!!!

[Ray H.]

Here is a table I have been working on for some time. It was made with MCX m3 not Art. The topography is true to life, derived from USGS Seamless Data. The elevation is accurate to within 5 ft. This table is of the Fox River Waterway in Illinois. Shown are all: Lakes,ponds, rivers, streams, highways, and roads.

[Guest]

thats pretty cool ray

[RDub]

WOW! How'd you do that?

[Zoober]

Very nice, Ray.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Very Cool Ray,

It's nice to do something for yourself once in a while with the Software and tools we use everyday.

 

Tony

[Philcott]

Ray,

 

What do the yellow dots and red lines signify? It kind of looks like towns and roadways.

 

Nice work.

 

Phil

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

That's way cool!

[Ray H.]

Yep, the yellow dots are highways and red lines as well.

 

This was done with about 2 years of R&D trying to find someone who could provide me with a working cad model that was openable and useable. This particular piece is 22 x 55 inches. when I got the cad files from my supplier tey came in full scale. And then I had to scale them down over 4,600,000 times. Then convert to surfaces and simply fin. parallell the whole thing.

I am starting a company that offers these maps of anywhere in the continental United States. All I need is two GPS corners. Also lakes that are large enough can have the Bathymetric Data included ( underwater terrain). That was my original idea, to make fishing maps. Anyhow I am almost ready to go Live with my Website I will repost when it is up.

 

By the way I had well over 100 hours modeling this in Mastercam.Solid works crashed every time I tried to open one of the 16 files provided to me (140meg each)

[toy4x4]

That is cool. How long did it take to cut it?

[billystein]

very nice,

 

where did you get the data?

 

billy

[Leehound]

I would love to cut a map of the area I live. So this service that you are offering, are you selling table tops or the surface model of an area?

[mtnflyr]

That is so cool!

One of those made of redwood of the Santa Cruz Mts. would be SWEET!

[Ray H.]

Toy- took 2 1/2 hours

 

Billy- I won't divulge source, sorry.

 

Lee- I could definetely work something out with you, for the MCX file.

please send me a e-mail [email protected]

[BernieT]

That is very cool, Ray!!! You did a great job!!!

 

My great aunts used to have a cottage on Fox lake - neat place. Good memories.....

 

 

Please keep us posted on projects like this that you do.

 

 

[Ployd]

Nice work and good idea!

[SydwazShawn]

Thats a really cool idea!! I hope it works out for you. Its always nice to see someone come up with somthing new and have it take off. It just seems at times everything has been thought of.

[Quickmike]

I've always thought iabout making a globe like that but didn't know where to get the 3d cad. That is way cool.

[Chris Rizzo]

wow, very nice work. what kind of wood? so was the topographical data in a wireframe / dxf type of format? then did you create surfaces based on elevation?

 

i did some cool modeling using rhino and a neat "drape" feature.

[Ray H.]

Thanks everyone,

It's good to get such positive feedback.

 

In The last 24 hours I have had 2 inquiries for maps, I am anxious to get started on a new project I will post the new pieces when something is cut.

 

Chris,

The wood is solid Beechwood.

The file was a DXF but it was not a typical topographic map, I tried to use that first, but it looked terrible and the surfaces were full of holes.