Advanced Vee Carve

[MervynMitchell (Dr Mervyn Mitchell)]

I am attempting to use Adv. V Carve to reproduce a mediaeval woodcut. Picture below.

I have converted it into a clean SVG file but Carbide Create appears unable to produce the requisite G Code. Again, please see below. I’m using a 1/16" end mill and a 60 degree V cutter. Am I simply exceeding the capabilities of my software or is there some way I can remove the parts of the image I don’t wish to print? Adv. V Code usually works perfectly for me.

Any suggestions? Or am I trying to achieve the impossible?

Thanks, Mervyn

[CrookedWoodTex (Tex)]

@MervynMitchell

am I trying to achieve the impossible?

Here’s what Vectric’s Sketch Carve rendered with no editing of your original file.

PS. Where can we find more medieval wood cuts?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

@CrookedWoodTex

PS. Where can we find more medieval wood cuts?

This one is

The Canterbury Pilgrims Sitting Down for a Shared Meal

by William Caxton

Unfortunately, while it’s supposed to be available online:

https://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/illuminated-manuscripts/

it doesn’t appear at:

William Caxton

This seems to be available under license:

https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/14033/

and I suspect that with a good-quality original it would trace fine and then work for reproduction.

The best original which I’m finding is:

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Loading that into a photo app and rotating it:

We get an image which can be imported as a tracing:

and the Threshold adjusted:

so that one may “Trace Image”

Ok

and then centered in the working area:

and a V carving toolpath applied:

which previews as:

Attached as a v7 file:

Caxton_Chaucer_pilgrims_meal.c2d (2.5 MB)

Most likely the difficulty is with the traced geometry which you have — many online tools have errors such as overlapping or self-intersection.