University Seal carveable?

[keninar]

Fielded a query yesterday about carving a Georgetown University logo.

Not quite sure where to start with this type of image.

Is this doable - or do I let it lie?

Image attached

Thanks!

ken

Still on 1.187/Centerline

[oscarl48]

It is definitely carveable. The question comes down to the quality of the pattern and the size of the carving to capture the detail. I can try a simple port this afternoon to see what kind of pattern I can get from the image because otherwise it will entail building a pattern from scratch.

my process: image > svg > blender > stl > CW pattern editor > CW pattern

[bergerud]

Here is an attempt. To get much better than this, I think someone (like Oscar) would have to start from scratch.

[keninar]

Appreciate all the input! At work now, so can't do much.

Oscar, appreciate your efforts. Not familiar with your process - and don't have the software you reference. Thank you for taking a look!!

ken

[oscarl48]

Dan, nice. I see you grabbed a higher res image like I did.

Ken, sorry for being a little vague. I take an image into Inkscape (free) program and convert to an scalable vector graphic (svg) format image. I then open it in Blender 3d (free) and convert to a mesh 3d object. Still in Blender I save the mesh as a stereolithography (STL) formatted object. I then open in CW editor and clean up as much as I can and then finally save as a final pattern. The quality of the pattern is dependent on many factors but a big one is the quality of the initial image. The ones I was able to find were fairly small and not a lot of detail.

You could spend a few hours with the CW editor and repaint this to really clean it up.

Dan (and everyone else on here) is much better than me at creating patterns from 2d images.

Edit: 2nd image. I went back and cleaned up the initial graphic by increasing the pixel density and converting to greyscale. I then imported directly in CW as an image. If the image is clean the CW software is actually pretty good.

[keninar]

Gentlemen,

Thank you, kindly, for your efforts.

Oscar - thanks for the roadmap. Haven't worked with blender yet, but perhaps this may be the impetus to do so.

Played around a bit with Bergerud's pattern and will let my friend make the decision. Thank you for the work, B!

So much to learn - so little time!

Thanks again!

ken