Help with relief carving

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

.png == portable network graphic, a 2D pixel image
stl == comes from an application “Stereolithography CAD” and was used as the file extension for 3D data from that application

Some previous tutorials which may help:

Importing an STL to a specific base thickness

Given an STL file: [image] which once opened and imported is: [image] Stock thickness is noted as: wood is .735" thick, I am wanting a .25 bottom Base. There are three different ways to approach this, but we will assume that the desire is for a serving tray which has a working thickness of 0.25", and which uses the full thickness of the stock. 2.31mm == 0.09094488 so the model will need to be scaled up quite a bit (x8) Rounding up a bit we arrive at: [image] so we draw: [image] …

(note that importing a pixel image is much the same as an STL, just no rotation option)

Importing and creating toolpaths for a geographic depth map

Given a pixel image: [CapeCod Oct 11] It can be imported into Carbide Create Pro as an image: [image] (we will be using v8 here, but the same principles apply to earlier versions) First, draw in geometry to define where the 3D model will be made: [image] Select the image: [image] check the import: [image] and adjust as desired: [image] Done Since we want the ocean to be included, add that: [image] [image] Apply [image] Done [image] Apply toolpaths: [image] [ima…

If you’ll upload your file we can walk through this with you here — just let us know stock thickness and how you want things to cut.