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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: RICH on March 11, 2008, 10:58:59 PM

Title: GRIM REAPER - A TEST OF ENGRAVING
Post by: RICH on March 11, 2008, 10:58:59 PM

Happy with the tatoo put on his bike, his biker buddy wanted something for his Harley and he was into the Grim Reaper.
A got a picture from him and the rest was CNC.

Title: Re: GRIM REAPER - A TEST OF ENGRAVING
Post by: Sam on March 12, 2008, 01:29:56 AM

What bit did you use? Center-drill? Looks good.

Title: Re: GRIM REAPER - A TEST OF ENGRAVING
Post by: WH33LS on April 05, 2008, 06:47:06 AM

was wondering if you had the image next to you while u coded the image

or if somehow you imported the image and kinda of 'traced' the reaper with the code

Thanks in advance

Title: Re: GRIM REAPER - A TEST OF ENGRAVING
Post by: deadguy71 on April 12, 2008, 11:36:27 AM

Nice job!

You might want to look into a free program called "wintopo" that at least semi-reliably converts graphic images (like scanned-in art or other web graphics jpg's, gif's, etc) into a raster format (DXF).  It saves me TONS of time, and although I sometimes have to erase bits of "noise", I typically don't need to do anything at all to it.

Imagine all those little art detail books on your scanner.. full of engraving potential. with celtic knots and all kinds of things... merely a few clicks away.

(works best on line art drawings)