I’m a little late to the party on this one, but I just threw a screencast and machining video together to show everyone how I would go about making this in CC Pro and cutting it on the Shapeoko.
The screencast portion is pretty long (17 minutes) - but shows my entire process for designing this part. Basically I was pretending like someone was sitting next to me and I was showing them every single step of the process.
Project Files Here: https://cutrocket.com/p/5d2677ab45a13/
Hey Edward, thanks for doing this tutorial. It really starts to open up what this CC pro can do. Speaking of that, when I was messing around with border textures, I tried a photo to see what that would look like. I then realized that it would be cool to be able to carve a photo–is this possible? The border import does this, is there a way to centre the picture to get all of it, rather than broken up? It would be a really cool feature, although this picture would take about 18 hours to get fine detail…still with simpler pictures it would be cool. Just a thought.
I agree that the import of images to carve, not as border would be an excellent feature and probably trivial at this point.
That’ll be in 414 when it comes out
The new 414 is able to import this:
to make the shape which previously didn’t seem feasible to make:
Hope it helps!
Haha… well done! But how did you make that image?
I created one part in Carbide Create Pro, exported it as a PNG, then composited it in a pixel editor.
This feature looks to have a lot of possibilities — basically you can cut any pixel image, and draw up pretty much anything which can then be cut out using the toolpath options.
Unfortunately, I can’t work up toolpath options for a couple of the joinery ideas I have, so I’m back to trying to hand-program toolpaths for them.
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