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hitest4
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inserting design into computer

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I watched the shark video, which mentioned this subject, but left questions unanswered. How does one go about inserting a carving design from a sheet of paper into the CNC computer so that the CNC router carves the design into the wood? Thanks for your answer. Mike--Hitest4

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Hi Mike,

The first thing you'll need to do is get that sheet of paper into some digital image format - jpg, bmp, png, tif. Ideally you would scan it. Another alternative that might work just as well - if you're really careful in how you do it - is take a picture of it.

Then import the picture and choose the carving toolpaths you want to use on the vectors generated. These 2 posts have some good discussion on this step (although only a VCarve toolpath was selected).

http://www.cncsharktalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=315

http://www.cncsharktalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=361

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Thanks, Joe from KY. KY!? Man, you guys been gettin some rain lately?

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