Can someone recommend a reasonably priced engraving package? I am not looking for anything really fancy. I would like to be able to scan some images or favorite pictures and engrave them on various materials with my router.
Cheers
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Can someone recommend a reasonably priced engraving package? I am not looking for anything really fancy. I would like to be able to scan some images or favorite pictures and engrave them on various materials with my router.
Cheers
Wintopo has a freeware version of a Raster to Vector converter that should work nicely to create the vectors, then use your favorite cam package to engrave it.
'Rekd
Thanks. I will check it out. I guess you can't beat free!
What would be nice is a $10.00 rebate for d/l'ing freeware! :D
'Rekd
Try this it only does the text but is very handy for engraving and it is free too
http://www.deskam.com/deskengrave.html
I have deskengrave already. I am looking for something that processes images.
Why? A few years back I saw a really neat part that took white plexiglass and engraved a photo onto it. When it was backlite it looked like an old black and white photo. I am trying to reproduce this in a shadowbox
Rebates w/ Freeware!!!
WOO HOO!!:D :D
If you would like me to try and run an image of your choice through the programs I use for comparison purposes I will be happy to help.
For flat engraving I use photoshop, corel and paint. Corel is my standard as it makes everything easy and quick but paint 11 has some new vector features that really make designing engraving plates a snap. I vectorized a million dollar bill in about a days work with Corel.
For dimensional engraving like coins and jewelry I use Gravostyle.
It works off the shadows in the pic to set your depths.
I would be interested to see how the various packages stack up feature to feature on points like this. Send me whatever you want - provided its a clean pic.
How about DESKART ?
Paulried, I think you saw the demo from ArtCam Pro. DelCam was passing this engraving around at shows.
That could be. We have ArtCam at work. However, I saw the part in Salt Lake City when I was visiting a company that at the time represented the scanning system we use. We have a ScanTech laser scanner on a 4 x 8 ft table for scanning customers parts to make molds. It creates HUGE STL files that we convert into G-code and make a new master on a router.
Anyway, the guy who owns the place did this on the side for fun. He built the shadow boxes and sold them at local fairs. You give him a photo and he machined it. Looked nice.
BTW, the scanner is cool. Check it out at Scantech
Hi paulried
I just uploaged a program in the ftp unspecsified section that might be what you looking for.It is a free program that I found somewhere on the net. I forget where. It takes a bmp image and makes a gcode. hope this helps.
Dan
I forgot to give the name of the program. it's proflr06.zip. Sorry.
Dan
Thanks for the file. I downloaded it. I also found the website for it.
AMCE Profiler
Paul... you may also want to take a look at mach1. It will import a bitmap or jpg photo, let you set the specifics (including cutting lighter deeper or darker deeper) and exporting it as gcode. The demo has no limitation on importing/exporting and will do this. There are some photos of some of the results in both wood and stone on the users group site and they look impressive.
-Marc
Are there in shows in the St. Louis or Chicago area this summer where I can look at CAD/CAM and milling machines for Jewelry?
Terry
BobCad v18 can also used for engraving......
Klox
The IMTS 2016 is coming to Chicago next september, probably one of the best place to look for a CNC machine for whatever application you have in mind including Jewelry.Quote:
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