I wonder if you could take a picture from above it on a white surface, then import it as a bitmap, then trace the bitmap to get the shape. Then I’d resize it to scale.
I had to replicate some porch corbels for a friend. I traced the original out on a piece of 1/4 inch plywood and cut it out with my jig saw photographed it with my phone on a black ground imported it into carveco maker, traced the ouline and resized to the original. The first one I ran on my Onefinity was almost perfect. These were all curves so now you have wondering how I could have done this with your method. Great video Vernon love having alternative methods in my arsenal. background
Thanks Billy I like the picture method too but have had limited success doing it that way I did a white background that might have been the issue when I tried
Thanks for watching I would use the same trick drawing a center line then measuring each half Be sure to use the line for alignment on the mill too so your completed carve is straight
@@Hinkleshop I have to admit, I nicked your clamping solution. Your Carveco tutorials make more sense to me than any others. I am working through your videos and will look forwards to learning further useful skills.
Not what I was expecting. I thought you were going to take a photo, import it, scale it and then trace along the edge to get the vector. This way works though. It would be fun to try the photo thing to see if it's any easier, or faster.
I’ve tried the photo import option but, I haven’t had to much success The other issue is the edge of the image would be different here because of the distance between the edge and the flat created by the irregular distance of the live edge Also I’m learning the color of the background can make or break the trace
I thought edge detection would be hard with the piece you showed. You'd probably have to highlight it with something like a piece of white chalk. For the background, a solid color fabric or paper would probably help differentiate the piece. I'm glad to hear you'd given it a try though.@@Hinkleshop
I wonder if you could take a picture from above it on a white surface, then import it as a bitmap, then trace the bitmap to get the shape. Then I’d resize it to scale.
I had to replicate some porch corbels for a friend. I traced the original out on a piece of 1/4 inch plywood and cut it out with my jig saw photographed it with my phone on a black ground imported it into carveco maker, traced the ouline and resized to the original. The first one I ran on my Onefinity was almost perfect. These were all curves
so now you have wondering how I could have done this with your method. Great video Vernon love having alternative methods in my arsenal.
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Thanks Billy
I like the picture method too but have had limited success doing it that way
I did a white background that might have been the issue when I tried
Nice videos. Great 👍🏼
I gave you a thumbs up in the PwnCNC group when you asked about making this one. Great job!
Thank you!
Carveco is an awesome program!
Ticking Stick in digital format!
Yes sir!! I wondered if anyone would recognize the name of what I was doing
Excellent work that is alot simplier than what i was going to do. Thank you.
Thanks glad it helped
Great Tip Vernon, Thank you.
Thanks for watching
Awesome tutorial Vernon!!!!
Thank you!! I’m glad you enjoyed it
13:30 cute hat !!
Nice little work flow...What about ovals though? would you use this or something else?
Thanks for watching
I would use the same trick drawing a center line then measuring each half
Be sure to use the line for alignment on the mill too so your completed carve is straight
Thanks for all your vids
Thank you for watching!
@@Hinkleshop I have to admit, I nicked your clamping solution. Your Carveco tutorials make more sense to me than any others. I am working through your videos and will look forwards to learning further useful skills.
Not what I was expecting. I thought you were going to take a photo, import it, scale it and then trace along the edge to get the vector. This way works though. It would be fun to try the photo thing to see if it's any easier, or faster.
I’ve tried the photo import option but, I haven’t had to much success
The other issue is the edge of the image would be different here because of the distance between the edge and the flat created by the irregular distance of the live edge
Also I’m learning the color of the background can make or break the trace
I thought edge detection would be hard with the piece you showed. You'd probably have to highlight it with something like a piece of white chalk. For the background, a solid color fabric or paper would probably help differentiate the piece. I'm glad to hear you'd given it a try though.@@Hinkleshop