Eagle head cnc carving

[fenrus (Arjan van de Ven)]

btw it’s not THAT complicated. at some point I made a tutorial:

From STL file to Carbide Create (PRO) [screenshots included] (outdated, please see updated instructions in tutorial section)

Today I played a bit with taking STL files into Carbide Create (PRO). This is a work in progress, but the question comes up here often enough that I figured I should show screenshots of what this process looks like Step 1: Find a suitable STL file Not all STL files you can find on the internet are suitable for machining on your Shapeoko. 3D printers can print “true 3D” objects that contain hollow areas underneath solid areas. With the Shapeoko, you can only “cut from the top”, so the hollow a…

the only update to that tutorial is that one should use STL2PNG - javascript edition to convert the STL to a PNG, and not the command line tool