Help on Poker Table top

George Davidson · Post by **George Davidson** » Sun, Sep 30 2007, 9:30PM

I can make the 4 sides but can not make the other 4 side how can I do it

I am makeing a 8 sided poker table for my old night club I have been out of there for 8 years now. The 2 new guys want to put a poker table in the back room

I had 7 poker machine in the back room I was there 18 years and they were there when we buy the place. The back room was doing about $30,000 a week.They say it is doing about the same now.
They think that it can do more

I tryed to tell them the old people
don't want to play poker they want to play the machine.I don't want to see them do it. I still hold a note on it I am to old to go back into the bar
and night club seen.A lot of over head

Mark Hesketh · Post by **Mark Hesketh** » Mon, Oct 01 2007, 6:22AM

Are you talking about creating the chip trays in the other 4 sides? If that is what you are going for, trying taking the top into the part editor, then into contour mode. Right-click and select \"create edges\". You can then use the offset function to copy the lines a specified distance away. Trim them to the shape you want, then exit from contour mode and pocket them away.

Hope this helps

George Davidson · Post by **George Davidson** » Mon, Oct 01 2007, 7:50AM

Thank You Mark
I played with it a little I. I got all the out line but could not cut it out.
I have to go out to the shop now. I will play with it later.One thing I have to do today is the cradle it has been sitting for 2 weeks
Thank You Mark

Mark Hesketh · Post by **Mark Hesketh** » Mon, Oct 01 2007, 10:57AM

No problem George.

To get it to cut out, once you have made your shapes, exit from contour mode, right-click and select \"cut/pocket using closed contour\". then select the shape, it should turn green. in the bottom right corner of the screen a \"next\" button will appear, click on this and it will bring up the dialoge where you select your depth.

hope that gets it to work for ya

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Mon, Oct 01 2007, 11:21AM

George,

You should have been done with that cradle by now. The baby is coming and it ain't gonna wait for the cradle.

The poker table: can you import a dxf file to cut the pockets. Is the problem because you can't do angular geometric shapes?

George Davidson · Post by **George Davidson** » Mon, Oct 01 2007, 1:01PM

I know
Michael it should be in the zip file

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Mon, Oct 01 2007, 2:51PM

What is the overall width of the top suppose to be?

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Mon, Oct 01 2007, 4:11PM

Here George,

Hope this helps. Took me a while but I created a DXF file you can import into the part editor and do all the editor cuts at one time.

George Davidson · Post by **George Davidson** » Tue, Oct 02 2007, 7:44AM

Thank You Mark and Michael
I can see I have to learn alot more about the part editor.
Michael that looks great

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Tue, Oct 02 2007, 4:13PM

The DFX file is included if you need to produce another top like that one. In fact you can inlarge or srink it to fit any octogonal shape by selecting the shape and using Ctrl and both mouse buttons.