Custom engraved gun grips with my new x- carve

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I have them on eBay - gumby175 ,any ideas on new designs I could make?
Dan

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I’m curious about what software you use and how you deal with the curve? Very nice work.

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V-carve desktop is all you need , I cut the grip with it ,then project design to curved surface option

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Wait What?

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V-Carve will map curves onto a 3D surface. So he was able to map the 2D text to the couture of the gun handle model.

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How are you defining the proper curve in Vcarve. Are you using one of the clipart predefined objects?

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What if you were able to digitize the curve by mapping the bit touching the original blank before carving? The software could use the X,Y, Z points to extrapolate the curve, then apply the carve to that surface…:sunglasses: It wouldn’t take that many data points…

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Scorchworks’ G Code Ripper will do that. In the case of VCarve Pro or Aspire you would need a separate a program that can convert the probe data to a 3d model, then import that to be “mapped” onto.