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thats just way too cool

Matty

Great work keep, keep the chips flying.

Matty

You are correct to invert it in the designer. Nice job looks great

I dont think you could carve ceramic , but marbe viynl. I might try some.


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It’s not the machine or the board, it’s the poor image you started with.


I only use Hi res images 300 dpi or up.


Matty

I haven’t built a display box, just had a light behind them.
But I have now put them in oak frames so they can hang in windows.

Already have 5 orders for them, great Christmas presents.

My...

Interesting what version of software are you using 1.120 ?

I put a little silicon spray on a rag and wipe down the rails before each carve. I never seem to get any over heating on the z or y now. Sure it gets warm but not too hot.

Matty

Good to here that you had a good show well done,
The forum is having problems with uploading images I believe. I have post a couple of images to the forum but had to use external links from my own...

I got it on Ebay

Matty

What Dave was suggesting was not rotating an image as such but using the
Isometric view in designer to look at the image on angle to make sure
it's inverted correctly before carving.

Dave is correct , I did misread his post and the suggestion to angle the image to check the image before carving is excellent advice.

Thank's Dave

Matty

Dave is correct about the thicker material you use the darker the picture.

No offence Dave but I think the terminology “Rotate” is incorrect Should be “INVERT”

In the process as I described...

The only bit used was the 1/16th carving bit

Matty

Fantastic love the finish well done,

Matty

That’s a great start, it sure is fun and the possibilities are endless.
Make lots of chips and have fun

Thanks for shearing

Matty

Azbear, It toolk less than 1 min to convert the image,

Carving 1.27 hrs on best setting

Matty

Here is a step by step .



http://www.idealmarking.com/carve/d9.jpg

Not: when you carve the image it needs to carve inverted . Yo can down load the mpc file below to see what I mean
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Thanks for the comments everyone.

JOHNB there are no stupid questions.. except when I asked my 2nd wife to marry me.

Yes it was carved on the Compucarve, I will have a detailed How to in a...

Thought I would try some carving with corian . Have to say that I’m very happy with the out come. They were carved on.25 inch with a depth of 0.150 and the height was set at 400.
Light shining...

I have to say that is one awesome sign great lay out and design, well done.




Matty

I use the regular Pattern and if I need a recess I make in designer.

Matty

Some of mine are like that; I just invert them when I bring them on to the design board

Matty

John is right on the nail, Edit your images in another software cant do it in designer.
Matty

I had a look at jour .mpc file. The image you used seem to be very poor quality
Zoom in and you can see the defects. What you see is what carves.
Use the designer software to create your text; you...