Need Help!- engraving for an inlay

[KACengraver]

ok heres my problem i'm trying to engrave an oak buttstock for a sheriff's department shield to be inlaied into it, but no matter what i do i can't get the size right for it to fit in side of the engraving Anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to do this. Your help would be much appreciated

[saghirecho]

Dear,
I think that problem is in your circuit u can cotact a cnc machanic

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[Tweakie]

Originally Posted by KACengraver ok heres my problem i'm trying to engrave an oak buttstock for a sheriff's department shield to be inlaied into it, but no matter what i do i can't get the size right for it to fit in side of the engraving Anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to do this. Your help would be much appreciated

Real tricky problem that because scale on its own does not always produce the right results.
All the inlay work I have done so far has involved cutting the inlay and then cutting the pocket using the same drawing.
My best suggestion is to scan the object into a cad/cam then outline to get the shape of the pocket then use the 'tool radius offset' function to adjust the aspect ratio to fit. Perhaps a bit of trial and error is needed.

Tweakie.

(thanks to Switcher for the dxf)

[Litografa]

Do you have chinese laser? What is name of your software? Do you IMPORT objects into engraving software?

[KACengraver]

i use a speedy 500 as for software i use corel and job control. oh ok never thought of using cad/cam to do that i think we have a scanner thanks for the tip.