Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Photo to g-code for carving wood

In a message dated 6/14/2003 9:38:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, fuddham writes:

> I have been experimenting with several photo to g-code programs:
> bmptocnc, imagetogcode, etc. and have not come up with the product
> that I want. What I would like to do is convert a photo (deer,
> person, fish, etc.) and mill it into a piece of wood (award,
> gunstock, etc.) and have it look pretty close to the picture. The
> web site at imagetogcode.com show some very nice carvings that I want
> my photos to look like. Maybe I do not have my setting or cutting
> bit correct. Could someone give me some pointers, software
> ideas,
> and post some photo carving they have done?
>
> thanks
>
> Scott Hamilton

Scott:

You may be correct about the cutting tool. The tooling is very important and in many cases to get the effect you describe you must use more than one tool. That is why the larger machines have automatic tool changers. That way the tooling depth in each holder is preset correctly and the machine just picks the correct tool for each type of cut.

Randy Abernathy