Quote Originally Posted by Ed Bartlett View Post
Hi,
I work for an architectural firm in London, in the Modelshop department. I'm looking for a software package for our new 3-axis CNC that can do a particular task that would save us a lot of time.
After sending a 3D landscape file to the CNC that it has roughed and finished, I want to be able to cut multiple building locations out of this landscape with a set depth. The problem I have is that the drawing of the buildings, as they haven't yet been designed, is just a 2D outline.
A company that we outsource to has a CNC software that allows you to place a 2D drawing on top of the 3D landscape, and will translate that 2D into the 3D by a set depth, and obviously recognises the form of the landscape. At the moment we're doing this in a seperate software and is quite a lengthy slow process.
Does this make sense? Can your software help?

Cheers

Ed
Ed, welcome to the forum.

I dont know of any software that will do this directly but there's always more than one way to approach a problem. Just so I understand the problem, am I right in assuming you want the building cutouts to be a set depth relative to the landscape surface at that location? If so, why is that important? Why not make all cutouts the same depth relative to some arbitrary horizontal surface, say the max landscape height? I can see that might make the building models slightly more complex in that each will need a spacer under them equal to the height delta at that location (assuming they are created seperately and slotted into the landscape later).