Carving a spherical Earth with epoxy oceans - 4-sided 3D rotary CNC routing with the Shapeoko

By Dennis Van Hoof, from Top o’ Arts (). This video shows the process of 4-sided CNC routing a spherical 3D Earth with a diameter of 200 mm (8 inch), using my manual rotary setup for the Shapeoko XXL. The Earth was carved from a solid piece of tree trunk with a diameter of 250 to 300 mm (10 to 12 inch), and the oceans were filled with a layer of 5 mm (1/5 inch) epoxy resin. Check out the YouTube video where I introduce manual rotary CNC routing with the Shapeoko XXL by carving a koi fish () Software used: - Meshmixer to create the 3D Earth STL files - Vectric VCarve to generate the tool paths - UGS Platform to send the Gcode to the CNC Materials used: - Tree trunk of 250-300 mm (10-12 inch) in diameter and 375 mm (15 inch) in length - 1/4“ steel octagonal rotary plates - Epoxy resin and different blue dyes from the Epoxy Resin Store - 3 inch roughing bit: Amana Tool end mill #45210-3 - 3 inch finishing bit: Amana Tool ball nose #46286 Music: Alex Dee Gladenko - Beach Party