Tech EXPO 2017 Exhibit No. 6 Sculpting Using CNC Technology By Brian Swanson Southern Utah University Figure 2 - Scenic artist worked to define details within the statue T Figure 1 - Slices assembled into rough sculpture 20 United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. he 2016 production of Julius Caesar at the Utah Shakespeare Festival required an oversized statue of the title character to serve as a focal point of the scenic design. The design team's intent was for the statue to also be an accurate replica of the actor playing the character. Given the limited time in the build schedule to carve and create the statue and given some previous experience during that season with freeware 3D modeling software, the decision was made to use a CNC router to quickly and accurately make a rough carving that the scenic artists could put the finishing details on. Earlier in the season, for a production that required a large tree, the shop had utilized the freeware 123D Catch from Autodesk to create a 3D computer model of the tree model piece. This 3D model was sliced and imported into AutoCAD to aid in creating a replica of the model piece at full size. Using the knowledge gained in that experiment, the assistant technical director, Nils Emerson, decided to use the same software to create a 3D model of the actor portraying Caesar. This model was manipulated to remove artifacts and after doing so was