Hello guys,
Wondering is any of you know how to go about using Easel to edge rout a piece. I’m making projects that need a Roman Ogee on the edge. I searched through the discussions on here, and found a discussion from a decade ago, another eight years ago, and another two years ago, and none offered a solution (other than ditching Easel and going with a different software). So I’m bringing the topic back up again.
Currently I make the pieces, and then use a hand router. There are several downsides to this approach obviously (biggest being wasted time).
Is there a way of doing edge routing directly, or indirectly (tricking easel to do what one wants by lying to it)?
thanks,
Joe
You can “trick” it into doing just about anything you want.
I’ve created a custom bit for a bowl/box bit, to carve a roundover on the inside of my shop cabinet handles. In this case, I set up a rectangle very slightly larger where I wanted the curve to be, and the bit size was set to the exact dimensions of the bit, so it made two passes horizontally. I took shallow passes to prevent damaging the machine or breaking the bit.
If you want the edge profile on all edges, one possibility might be to set the bit’s size to the center of the bit (i.e., width of the bearing), and ask Easel to carve outside the shape. In theory, it should only carve the profile. Two big caveats:
- I’d remove the bearing, because if it caught somewhere it would probably break something.
- You probably need to remove any outside material, otherwise you are caving both sides with the bit. The problem with this becomes how do you hold the piece down?
I haven’t tackled this on any of my projects yet, basically because working with a bit intended for hand use (with a bearing) feels like a great way to damage something or get hurt if it goes wrong.
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