Has anyone figured out a cool way to do embossing or prism cutting with carbide create?
I’ve a few things using the v-carving options and pockets, but I always end up with junk in the inner parts of some of the smaller letters. The image shows what I’m talking about and do realize this is a pocket cut with a 1/16" end mill (not super thrilled about that).
Any ideas?
Looked into this here:
Interesting - I almost had it.
Bummer - pro huh? I’m still on an intel silicon Mac at this point. I’m going to compare what I ended up with to what’s in that tutorial. What I’m finding out is the font choice matters. The sign example the customer has is 100% hand carved (it’s from the 1940s). The artist clearly chose block letters in order to keep the embossing simple.
Thanks @WillAdams
Hand-carving will be able to realize a continuous change in angle which is cut far more decisively than a series of passes w/ a ball-nose tool.
I looked into drawing up letters which were cut with a number of different angle V-tools, but the appearance just got weird.
There is a path to do that in Vectric with VCarve bits but it takes a lot of playing with to get what you want.
I used it and the massive IDC 150 degree V bit to create some wall letters in MDF.
It looked great until it didn’t. The vertical wall of the bit engaged the material and bogged things down to the point that I burned up my controller.
I have t tried that again but if I need to I will clear out area around the letters so that the vertical portion won’t engage.
Yeah, darn - man - the lettering I’m working with is script and a funky font at that. If I do the inside/outside stuff, there’s almost NOTHING on the inside. I’ve been trying NOT to hack up the customer’s graphics, but I’m about to redraw most of this banner with impact on the same curve to see if I can get this to look reasonable.
I ended up changing the font, reworking the paths in Affinity designer then redoing all the spacing in Carbide Create.
Nice job
Let’s see it when you finish it.
My part is done. Customer states they will finish it.
I’ll post back when I see it.
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