Holiday Serving Tray

Excited to hear about the “Vectric Holiday Make Off” Todd took to ask around the office to get a feel for what others did for holiday traditions. It seems everyone has their own little Family traditions that were very special and on top of those, food seemed to be an important part of the celebrations!

Thinking back to a trade show and a book he saw, he used one of its projects as inspiration for a small serving tray. Not wanting to get too much into 3D modelling and wanting the project to be accessible to as many Vectric users as possible, he leaned on the moulding toolpath as a base for this two sided project.

Todd will demonstrate how to use the moulding toolpath in a two sided environment to make a tray including handles. Then, to over come the lack of thicker material on hand, he cleverly creates a “blank” to be used for his final project out of two different types of wood. After that he will review the final project file, showing you how to add texture with the texture toolpath and customizing with text. After cutting it on the CNC, the tray is finished with a food safe finish ready for those special holiday tasty treats.

If you are new to two sided machining or the texture toolpath you may find these video’s useful too:

https://www.vectric.com/support/tutorials/aspire/?playlist=two-sided-machining

https://www.vectric.com/support/tutorials/vcarve-desktop/?search=Texture&video=how-to-use-the-texture-toolpath

We hope you like this project! Got a question? Drop them in the comments below and we’ll get back to you ASAP!

Happy Holidays and Happy Making