Originally Posted by
micromillnick
Yup, ive used it to make 3 d images of photos, however unless the end engraving is quite large you have to get a small bit (less than 1mm) to get decent resolution on a passport sized image. Pretty obvious i know, but you cant seem to specify a smaller overlap per pass, so small bits it is. However you need a high speed chuck for such small bits so for now, ive stopped trying!. :banana:
To get a smaller step over you need to start off with a higher resolution image and then scale it down to the size you want in deskart. Deskart or any other program like it, will set a minimum stepover size based on the pixel distance of the image, so the smaller the pixels, the smaller the stepover you can have. You can choose to go larger in stepover if you want but not smaller than the set pixel size. You can obtain a very smooth image if you start off with an image that is say, 1024 x 768 pixels and then set the image size to your passport size (or smaller) once it is loaded into Deskart.
A great little program is Deskart.
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