Auto Cad Hatch Patterns for carving

Post by **webwizard2** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:56 pm

This doesn't even come close to Jay's food carving, but if you use Acad there are various hatch patterns that you can use for interesting effects. Kind of like texturing with hatch patterns.

Dale

Post by **Tony Mac** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:25 pm

Hi Dale,

Sounds interesting - any chance of posting some images to show the types of effect you can create?

Thanks,

Tony

Post by **Phil** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:38 pm

I've tried using hatching from CAD programs and from Corel Draw. The CAD programs I tried draw the hatching as a bitmap not a vector which won't work with V-Carve. I haven't thought of this in a long time but I guess you could bring it in to Inkscape and convert to vectors.

Post by **webwizard2** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:31 pm

Hi Guys
Give me a few days and i'll post some things in the gallery. Acad generates the patterns as vector lines. Depending on which pattern you use, some can be vcarved and some have to be profile cut because they're just a pattern of open lines. Of course you have to experiment with different bits and depths. But isn't that what it's all about. My machine isn't running yet so i can't post an actual cutting. BUMMER!

Dale

Post by **RoutnAbout** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:14 pm

I bet if someone were proficient with the LISP language they could make some random hatch inside autocad. Could be quite interesting. ..