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wpickrel
11-23-2015, 08:37 PM
I have never tried a Lithophane however I would like to make the attached picture of my 9 year old handicapped daughter into lithophane for a Christmas present for the wife. Could you please make suggestion on the settings I will need to avoid the normal beginner mistakes. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Dale
11-23-2015, 08:55 PM
Go to the Carvewright web page and under Support look for Tips and Tricks then look for Lithopane (Lithophane) Carving 101 – ISSUE 16 January 2009 (http://www.carvewright.com/assets/tips/CarveWrightTips_and_Tricks_Jan09.pdf). It will give you all the settings you need.

fwharris
11-23-2015, 09:34 PM
You need/should to use 1/4" material so the first thing is to set your board thickness to 0.250", when the pop up window comes up select proceed. I am guessing you are using designer 3.xxxx, if so set the board texture/view to lithopane so you can view how it will look.

In your mpc you have the image inverted and it will carve as a negative image so remove the inverted setting. Set the depth to 0.180 and height to 400.

wpickrel
11-24-2015, 06:25 AM
Thank You for you kind advice

aokweld101
11-24-2015, 06:38 AM
I have done a few lithos and the first advice is, your picture is a little fuzzy you need a good quality picture, I like to use a 1/32 bit it brings out more detail... using a .25 thickness material for the lithopane .180 for depth and 450 for height. You will need a holder for your .25 lithopane that is .75 in thickness. when you start your project to carve use a board use a board .75 x 10" x 17" and set your lithopane in it and tape it down to the board. and as Floyde said invert your pattern

wpickrel
11-25-2015, 08:51 AM
Going to make ths attempt this weekend will post results if all goes well and thanks for the litho holer will save me some presious time

wpickrel
11-28-2015, 08:23 PM
Well here's the very first lithophane, thanks for all the advice. 7887978880

oscarl48
11-28-2015, 09:08 PM
That came out great. Wonderful job.

aokweld101
11-29-2015, 08:56 AM
That did turn out great... at what the material cost you do't want to make a mistake..

CarverJerry
12-03-2015, 11:32 AM
This is my last litho that I did, white objects are hard to carve sometimes, so I took the picture inside to help calm it down, besides taking a picture of a lighted litho is difficult too.

wpickrel
12-06-2015, 07:49 PM
Nice, love the pets.