Creating Small Text

[ColdCoffee (Robert)]

Here are some cut and pastes from a previous post (below)…

…smallest 17 degree v bit was used to barely scratch the stained surface of the text … the uppercase letters are 2mm tall…

With very small things, measurements need to be precise and the material needs to be (very) flat. The CNC will perfectly alter the bit height as instructed, but if you bit is going up and down 1/32 of an inch yet there is about the same variation in your material thickness the result is going to be frustrating.

Community challenge #17: Maps (closed)

The community helped me make my topographic Skyrim map, and I learned a lot from that process. I wanted to make for another game-map that would look similar, but using a different technique. The same company that made Skyrim also makes a game called Fallout. Unlike Skyrim, the Fallout games use real locations and Fallout 4 was based in Boston. To make this map I decided to do everything by hand. It was a VERY manual process as it took me roughly a week to build this design in Carbide Create…