mostlycold
06-21-2009, 12:41 PM
Michael (and others),
I have followed the T&T for overhang picture carving and have attached the mpc below. The followoing things varied for me from the original instructions and I had a couple of questions.
When I created my rectangle in PS3, it asked if I wanted Interlaced or Non-Interlaced, I knwo what that means in terms of video output, but does either selection matter for purposes of this use? The artwork was in electronic png format, it was B&W 207K 8300+ x 7600+ in size. When the rectangle and artwork were saved in designer, both were dropped once and floor unchecked to take out the background. Once dragged onto the board, recommended settings of height 999 and depth .3 were set for the native symbols and a .3 depth was set for the rectangle and feathering set to none. After selecting all, applied outline tool and much of the internal parts of the symbols (that did not overlap the rectangle) had dotted lines inside - manually deleted all dotted outlines that were not on the outside edge of the objects. When using the 3D viewer, carving looks like pierce carving done with a drill bit - all straight up and down cuts - was looking for a light and smooth carve on the top of the surface. When carve region and or bit optimization was selected, the artwork disappeared from the screen. What I am trying to achiveve is what looks like the dingbat carve of the native symbols (or a bit and depth that would achieve the same look) - can't use the dingbat method due to the object manipulation required by this process. Hope any of this is making sense?
To qualify for the forum, your directions in the T&T were terrific. When I used an oval and then overlayed a rose - it worked exactly as you described in the tutorial. The above issues happened when I attempted to apply a more complicated piece of artwork to this process. So this is me having the problem and not your instructions.
I live in ALaska so these type of native carvings are pretty popular. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx,
Dan
I have followed the T&T for overhang picture carving and have attached the mpc below. The followoing things varied for me from the original instructions and I had a couple of questions.
When I created my rectangle in PS3, it asked if I wanted Interlaced or Non-Interlaced, I knwo what that means in terms of video output, but does either selection matter for purposes of this use? The artwork was in electronic png format, it was B&W 207K 8300+ x 7600+ in size. When the rectangle and artwork were saved in designer, both were dropped once and floor unchecked to take out the background. Once dragged onto the board, recommended settings of height 999 and depth .3 were set for the native symbols and a .3 depth was set for the rectangle and feathering set to none. After selecting all, applied outline tool and much of the internal parts of the symbols (that did not overlap the rectangle) had dotted lines inside - manually deleted all dotted outlines that were not on the outside edge of the objects. When using the 3D viewer, carving looks like pierce carving done with a drill bit - all straight up and down cuts - was looking for a light and smooth carve on the top of the surface. When carve region and or bit optimization was selected, the artwork disappeared from the screen. What I am trying to achiveve is what looks like the dingbat carve of the native symbols (or a bit and depth that would achieve the same look) - can't use the dingbat method due to the object manipulation required by this process. Hope any of this is making sense?
To qualify for the forum, your directions in the T&T were terrific. When I used an oval and then overlayed a rose - it worked exactly as you described in the tutorial. The above issues happened when I attempted to apply a more complicated piece of artwork to this process. So this is me having the problem and not your instructions.
I live in ALaska so these type of native carvings are pretty popular. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanx,
Dan