Hi Kevin - for lowering the small text I would select the text, create an offset outside of it to create a single piece of geometry. With that new geometry selected, create another offset equal to the last but to the inside so there is now a single geometry the same size and shape of the text. Delete the larger offset.
Pocket the geometry where the text is, down to a level that will leave enough material and give your text the look you want.
Carve your text in the remaining material, beginning at the bottom of the pocket depth, not the top of the stock.
Hope that helps, but test it out before you commit it to your final project.
Made up some sea turtle decorations for my daughter’s room to go along with her beach theme. The turtles vary in size and species using Ash, Olive, Yellow Heart and Jatoba.
Thanks! The inlays are teal and white epoxy. The colours don’t come through well on the photos. There are also some carvings that are unfilled just to add more depth.
PVC as an alternative to brass for leatherworking stamping (on a clicker press, no heat)
still has some fuzzies, but all in all pretty good cut. Fast too.
and refined my brass milling. Expiramented with some 20deg bits. broke two learning the speeds and feeds, but got it on the third go. Really happy with the detail I was able to get.
To improve the bottom cut, run a final pass with .02 left. For Example, if you want the Total Depth to be .25, make your DOC .115, which will leave .02 for the last pass/finish pass. I have found that pine flexes just from the bit’s pressure pushing down.
Here is a screenshot of the toolpath. The top line is the 1st pass at DOC .115, and the 2nd Pass is .23 (.115+.115). The Final pass is .02. This strategy will help reduce the amount of finish sanding needed.
We play a bunch of board games. This year’s group loves the game Wingspan, so they requested a way to keep it organized. I decided to make it beautiful for fun.
I’ll post process photos if anyone is interested but it’s as easy as it looks.
After spending more time than I should have agonizing over the details, I finally started my Les Paul project. The neck will be next big obstacle, and not sure yet if I’ll do it with the CNC or use the CNC to make jigs and do it by hand. Definitely going to do custom fretboard inlays though…I mean what’s the point of having a CNC machine if you don’t use it for custom inlays, right!!!
Right! As a previous luthier, inlays became an increasing focus of my guitars. I haven’t made a guitar in ten years but I still do inlay work. There are always boxes.
The tray needs to be about twice as deep, you definitely need room for more chips. there will need to be a larger hole for the bigger drink container so as to wash down your small snack. the hot sauce, a 5 gallon bucket will be just fine. Nice project.
My 2 yr old granddaughter loves Minnie. I scanned of a Minnie doll (Lynx scanner, JMStudio app) and got a very good result. I have 3.5 " thk pine, so I had to cut it.
I have a turntable under that well used plywood so I could rotate the subject with my foot.
This made scanning much easier.
The JMStudio app, while a bit awkward, does work once you get a feel for it.
I was able to manually align two scans.
I spend 20 minutes clearing unwanted points. Saved as STL.
I used Fusion for Mesh clean up ( 30 minutes ) and CAM work. I realized that I had not paid attention to the heights of various features and had to tilt the model. I also clipped off the bottom.
I used a Cadence downtown Jenny because I found that upcut tools make nasty hairs in the pine. I do have a few spots were the downcut left marks. I used a #101 1/8 ball end mill for detail ( REST) clean up which removed most of the downcut tool marks thankfully.
Impressive results. I considered a 3D scanner some time back and was concerned about achieving quality results. Looks like you have done that. A Quick Look shows that scanner at about $450 now which is high for an occasional use toy but reasonable if you have a consistent need.
I experimented with the LiDAR and apps on the iPhone and was underwhelmed but to be fair I didn’t spend a lot of time on it.
