hey all I’m wanting to build a egg box for my daughter how do i carve a oval depth to hold her eggs? oval shape i can do the the depth I’m having trouble with
You could start with the outline of the shape you want (importing a generic egg shape, using the Line [pen] tool, or modifying a basic circle), then use the super gradient generator to make a smooth-ish bowl from that.
It’ll probably require a bit of hand-sanding to get a nice finish, but it should work fairly well.
(Note: if you have Easel Pro, there’s already a handful of basic egg shapes in the design library to get you started.)
In case you want to mess with these:
I quickly threw together an example of what I mean.
In that project, there’s a circle and an egg shape, both turned into a dish or bowl shape using the gradient generator.
I only changed two settings in the generator:
- Changed the Curve Type to
ease-out, which gives it a more natural shape. - Changed the number of steps to 40 for a smoother curve.
The result:
(Note it won’t be that smooth unless you use a very small bit or switch to 3D carving with a ball-nose bit.)