Engraving/carving on existing parts question

[zonker]

What would be the best/easiest way to engrave or carve reliefs into parts that already exist with a cnc machine. I have a homebuilt trolley type engraver/router and have artcam 2009, vectric's v-carve, rhino 4, master camX, poser, 3d studio max, z-brush and have other's readily available to me.
What i would like to do is be able to cut reliefs and patterns into existing motorcyle parts. Does anyone know how is the best way to go about this?

[mcphill]

Originally Posted by zonker What would be the best/easiest way to engrave or carve reliefs into parts that already exist with a cnc machine. I have a homebuilt trolley type engraver/router and have artcam 2009, vectric's v-carve, rhino 4, master camX, poser, 3d studio max, z-brush and have other's readily available to me. What i would like to do is be able to cut reliefs and patterns into existing motorcyle parts. Does anyone know how is the best way to go about this?

Scan in the surfaces you want to engrave or emboss and use a CAD package that you can add the features to the scan data. I am trying to do exactly this, and will be able to using my scanner, and BobCAD-CAM.