Been playing around with designs and designing it in Adobe Illustrator if any of your are familiar with that - a graphics program that is 2D. I am not a cuemaker, but rather trying my hand at having my own design made.
What I am doing is using the diameter at key points of the cue... butt, above the wrap, and joint... and using that to get the circumference value to use as my 'available' width in the flat design. So, lets say the joint is .850", I would have .850 x π = 2.67" available width.
The problem I am facing is kind of two fold. I can print my flat design on a piece of paper, cut it out, and it will wrap around the cue pretty much spot on to what I expect, BUT if you use those dimensions in the CNC program the design the inlays are going to end up larger than what is expected... it is cutting the design flat onto a curved surface. Hopefully that makes sense as I don't know how else to describe it.
So, is there a formula or something that will allow me to calculate the correct height width of these inlay designs so when cut they will end up what I expect? The only other thing I can think of is if I can digitally turn my 2D design into a 3D one and print the design off at 'zero' for each inlay, then measure the width/height from that... in a sense that would be like measuring the inlays as if they were actually 'on' the cue just in a 2D view.
What I am doing is using the diameter at key points of the cue... butt, above the wrap, and joint... and using that to get the circumference value to use as my 'available' width in the flat design. So, lets say the joint is .850", I would have .850 x π = 2.67" available width.
The problem I am facing is kind of two fold. I can print my flat design on a piece of paper, cut it out, and it will wrap around the cue pretty much spot on to what I expect, BUT if you use those dimensions in the CNC program the design the inlays are going to end up larger than what is expected... it is cutting the design flat onto a curved surface. Hopefully that makes sense as I don't know how else to describe it.
So, is there a formula or something that will allow me to calculate the correct height width of these inlay designs so when cut they will end up what I expect? The only other thing I can think of is if I can digitally turn my 2D design into a 3D one and print the design off at 'zero' for each inlay, then measure the width/height from that... in a sense that would be like measuring the inlays as if they were actually 'on' the cue just in a 2D view.