How to carve a jpeg image onto a piece of wood

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@Bill3

PhotoVCarve wont do relief work.

Yes it will.

First Try at 3D Relief

Downloaded the trial of PhotoVCarve, had a few goes with the VGroove maching a picture despite changing all the settings and using different angled bits i didnt get satisfactory results So i had a go at grayscale relief, which i think turned out great. I used mdf which probably isnt the greatest material for it Gcode was imported into easel. The only thing that photovcarve could do with is a roughing pass to clear out large areas before the detail work, so i used 1/8 inch bull nose and the ca…

So will our PicLaser or PicEngrave image to gcode programs. It requires a depth map image.

Depth Map Images