StumblingAcres wrote:Hello Everyone,
I am still new and learning each day. I have a friend who asked if a 2 ft by 2 ft Choctaw nation seal can be made out of medal. I downloaded several pictures off the internet but am having trouble making any of them a fie that will cut. I am attaching a picture of what i am trying to cut, It does not have to be exactly like that, the writing and the inside image is the important part. The rings around the outside and in the middle don't have to be like that. I am hoping someone can either help me in making this or make this a file that will cut and maybe explain how they did itso i can study it. So in future maybe i can fix the problem myself.
THANK YOU
My steps.
Find large clean drawing ( coloring pages of whatever ) (GOOGLE search)
Load into either MasterCam or Scan2CAD
Clean up some of the image so it can be sized
Save the image as a DXF file
Figure out just how much of the detail I want to keep
Redraw the lines and circles of what I plan to keep
Screen dump to PAINT and fill the solid parts and see where I screwed up
Go back to step 6 and keep doing it until I have a part that I'm proud of
Create an NC file and verify it in MasterCam
Take file to machine and cut part
That about sums it up for an EASY part, the hard ones are just more of the same steps, sometimes with more programs involved.
Larry
P.S. This program is at step 4. You will decide what you want to keep and then go from there, OK
