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Creating toolpaths for the Coat of Arms relief (DP V5, 7.5 min)
The two videos on this page have been made with DeskProto Version 5. You can better watch Create CNC toolpaths for a Coat Of Arms relief, which shows the same process with DeskProto V7. Scroll down on this page to see a few resulting Coat-of-Arms reliefs.
The old Coat-Of-Arms relief video above shows you how to create toolpaths for the Coat of Arms relief, using the DeskProto Entry Edition.
Customizing the relief with your own graphics and text (DP V5, 11 min)
The second old video teaches you how to customize this relief by adding your own text to the ribbon and your own graphics to the shield. This video as well was made with DeskProto Version 5.
As the geometry of the relief is a free download, this lesson enables you to create a model for any purpose that you feel suited: a family crest, a sports prize, a employee prize - you name it.
Results showcase for the COA relief
A small relief in tooling board, 140x150 mm. Click on the left picture for a high-res version
These first two pictures show a small version of the flat Coat-Of-Arms relief (140 x 150 x 20 mm), made using the DeskProto Entry edition, as described in the video tutorial. A base has been added below the relief by loading a second STL file into the same DeskProto project. The bitmap relief is 'negative': has been created by removing material after first machining a flat shield. The model is machined in tooling board, you can click on the left picture for a high-res version.
A relief in walnut wood, 230x220 mm. Click on the right-side picture for a high-res version
The second Coat-Of-Arms is larger (230 x 220 x 11 mm), however machined without the base. This model has been machined in walnut wood, using four different cutters: roughing with a 6 mm diam ballnose, after that a 3 mm ballnose, and finally a 2 mm ballnose. All these toolpaths have been created in DeskProto Full using Bitmap operations. That was needed to create a positive relief, lying on top of the (domed) shield. The text finally was engraved using a flat cutter of 1 mm diameter.
The resulting model has been treated by special wood-oil and looks great !
The relief in transparent plastic. Front side left and back side right
We could not resist to create a third Coat-Of-Arms model, machined in the back side of a transparent material. Much smaller this time: ca 65 x 65 mm. The shield geometry has been converted to a cavity by selecting Inverse milling in DeskProto. Note that inverse milling will come with a 180 degree rotation, which also has to be applied to the bitmap and to the 2D text on the ribbon.
The picture on the shield is the Radetzky bitmap (Austrian field marshal Radetzky) that is one of the sample files in every DeskProto edition.
Machined in wood (beech and mahogany) by Rudolf Thiele from Germany
Thiele Holz from Wurzen (Germany) produces wooden articles and artworks. Herr Thiele machined this Coat-Of-Arms relief for his own use: the letters A.R.T. being initials.
The relief model was done using DeskProto, without 2D operation or bitmap operation. The letters were separately machined, using 2D toolpaths, and have later been glued onto the relief model.
Email us a photo of the Coat of Arms relief that you created so we can add that to the list of results !
(in case you want with a link to your website).
It will be interesting to see which machines are used, and of course also to see the results!