The machining process of a Coat Of Arms relief
Four operation, each creating more detail.
Machining the Coat-of-Arms relief in walnut wood: using toolpaths as created in the tutorial video above (DP V5, 3 min)
The Coat-of-Arms video shows plain 3-axis machining, for a detailed relief geometry. Even more as details are added using bitmap operations and a 2D operation.
The four steps that are shown are:
- Roughing, 6 mm ballnose cutter
- Semi-finishing, 3 mm ballnose cutter
- Finishing, 2 mm ballnose cutter
- 2D text engraving, 1 mm flat cutter.
In this project the bitmap machining is not an extra step: as the relief is lying on top of the shield, all operations need to be bitmap operations. This in contrast to the old DeskProto V5 Coat of Arms video, where the relief is later engraved in the shield surface.
The relief is machined in walnut wood: looks great ! Take care though as walnut wood dust may cause allergic reactions.