Looking for a GCode or help

[ajakennedy (andrew jacob kennedy)]

Hello looking to get into making family crest wood signs with shapeoko cnc on carbide motion. Either help with how to GCode it in the right way or have a gcode for reference. Looking specifically for a MacLennan family Crest but open to any examples.

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

It should just be a matter of drawing this up, then doing a V carve, see:

Carbide Create re-drawing

If one only has a pixel image: [image003] then one has three options: auto-tracing — EDIT: Carbide Create has since gained this feature: Carbide Create - Image Tracing using the pixel image using a tool such as MeshCAM or Carbide Create Pro’s texture feature re-drawing — this is a tutorial on this: Begin by going to Job Setup and setting the Stock Size and importing the image onto the background: [image]

or

Carbide Create drawing/tracing tutorial

@Bonch has a project which requires this very charming image: [WoodlandKidsLogo_BW] which is only available as a pixel image. Re-drawing it should be straight-forward: First, launch Carbide Create, create a stock area of the correct proportion, and import the pixel image and size it appropriately: [image] EDIT: Alternately, one could use the new Image Tracing feature:

If you’ll post the image you’re having difficulty with or a link to it we’ll do our best to help.