Easy Woodgrain with V-Carve

[jharvey407]

I'm just starting my search, so feel free to link to sites and tutorials for answers.

I am bidding on a sign project. The sign will be HDU, painted.

The customer MAY want a wood grain textured background.

Is there is an easy way to make a wood grain texture with VCarve Pro?

[louieatienza]

I'm just starting my search, so feel free to link to sites and tutorials for answers.

I am bidding on a sign project. The sign will be HDU, painted.

The customer MAY want a wood grain textured background.

Is there is an easy way to make a wood grain texture with VCarve Pro?

You can try fiddling with the settings for the texture toolpaths in VCarve...

[justjoeok]

Find a bitmap of the type of wood your looking for and use the create model from bitmap option in modeling. Im making one now.

[ger21]

He doesn't have Aspire, he has V Carve pro.

[louieatienza]

Well you COULD theoretically find a woodgrain bitmap on the net (I'd look for something like ASH which has a very pronounced grain), convert it to B&W or greyscale with some free picture editor, then bring it into VCarve and do a vector trace. You'd then have to clean it up, and V-Carve it. I did this one a long time ago with CasMATE (20 years ago almost!)

[jharvey407]

Thanks for the suggestions guys.