engraving

Projecting a gravure onto a custom model

Submitted by lars on Wed, 11/07/2012 - 03:16
Toolpath projected onto a model

Recently a discussion passed through the linuxcnc-users mailinglist that encouraged me to demonstrate a nice new feature of PyCAM (currently only available in the development repository). The thread starter asked for software that he could use for engraving a 2D model onto a specific non-flat button. Just by accident this is a feature of PyCAM … Read more »

Engraving with single-line fonts

Submitted by lars on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 01:58
Text engraving with single-line fonts

Engraving text is a nice additional feature for all kind of woodwork or processing of thermoplastics. It is always possible to just use regular True-Type fonts for this (e.g. by importing an SVG model file from [Bad Link]). But these outline fonts cause problems for small engravings, since the graver will probably remove too much material from of inside holes of the text. Thus the outline of the engraving will be ok, but the inner features of the fonts will be barely visible or they just look broken.

The upcoming release of PyCAM v0.4.1 will include support for single-line fonts (also known as stroke-based fonts) to overcome this shortcoming. Read more »

First "product" created

Submitted by lars on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 05:17
Engraving into a tree disc

Some days ago I created a first “usable” product with the milling machine. The goal was to engrave a quote of Goethe into a tree disc. A friend of mine used it as a (from my point of view) gorgeous birthday present for his mother.

How we did it:

  1. Help some friends with taking down a tree and try to cut some evenly sliced tree discs out of it. In this case it was a 50 years old pine with a diameter of around 40cm.
  2. Find a suitable quote of your favourite poet.
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