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    Deskart anyone??

    I have a possible application for Deskart. Has anyone used it for 3D engraving from a photo or scanned in drawing.

    I know that it is not very expensive so it would not be a huge gamble to try. But I thought that I would ask.

    Any other similar solutions out there?
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    You should also try Meshcam, it's currently in beta testing and you can download the latest beta for free. Support so far is excellent.


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    Amen..use mechcam top notch!!!!!!!!! support the guy who wrote it!!!!!, i use it and its the puppy`s.........

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    I've used deskart with some family photo's just for fun. Only I didn't have any material in the machine at the time , I just wanted to try and see if it would make the machine move without any crashs or surprises. I dnc'ed the program and whalla, ok. Next time I can get an opening on the machine I will try making some dust and chips!


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    The motor was done with Deskart and the lettering with Deskengrave.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ARB
    I have a possible application for Deskart. Has anyone used it for 3D engraving from a photo or scanned in drawing.

    I know that it is not very expensive so it would not be a huge gamble to try. But I thought that I would ask.

    Any other similar solutions out there?
    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!.


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    Quote 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!.
    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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    deskart

    thanks mate, great stuff, i will try that tomorrow!
    Nick

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    If photocarving is what you want to do try imagecarve. It is what I use for my photocarvings. easy simple if I can do it anyone can


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    image carve?, thanks ill take a look at that.

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    just experimenting with deskart, im not sure ive got the hang of scaling things down in deskart, but in any case my problem my well be that my mill is metric so i have coverted all specs to metric in deskart on the create screen, this maybe resulting in an unnecessaryily crude image/step size. I will try leaving things in imperial and running the program (i can switch to imperial mode easily in Turbocnc so that shouldnt be a problem).

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    Nick,

    MM/Inches should not make any difference. All you need to do is load your large image into deskart and in the "image size" text boxes on the right hand side of the screen you will see what the current image size is. Simply change it to the image size you want. Eg: Your image may be 450mm x 450mm and the set pixel step over may default to 1mm. If you change you image size to 225mm x 225mm it will machine it to the given size and your pixel step over will be now settable to 0.5mm. See how you go, if you are still having problems, send me a problem picky and I will see if I can improve your result.

    Dave
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