Vectric Aspire HD photograph to 3D relief & toolpaths

hello and welcome to this vetrix aspire tutorial where we are going to take a high-grade or HD black-and-white photograph you can do this with color as well but I just prefer to convert it to a grayscale or black and white picture and convert it straight to a 3d relief and draw up the toolpaths for it so we start by first of all making a piece of material the right dimensions so I think very good I think we'll do 500 by 500 and I will start to do some of these tutorials in inches as well for you and 19 mil just for 19 millimeters about 3/4 of an inch and working at millimeters machine said top of the material front left hand corner for the XY 0 stat of the job which is normal for a CNC router if you have a CNC milling machine the start position would be at the back here like mahogany that's probably all right we can change that later I'll show you how to do that later on so we're going to okay that I'm going to come up here and come to this box here import a bitmap picture I have one prepared here somewhere here we go bitmap and this is a beautiful picture I've actually done this one in a laser engraving some years ago now so what you do to resize this is just click on it and it fetches the handles up so you can just catch out off and resize it I don't know whether you notice but when you import it into vetrix wire it automatically the picture automatically comes in right into the center of the material so we're going to lose a little tiny bit but that doesn't matter the main feature is the face that's what we're after so to convert this to a 3d relief but at the moment it's just a picture or a photograph you come to the modeling tools and you come up to this icon here create a component from a selected okay create a component first from a selected bitmap image just one click and it goes black and white and we think oh dear well that doesn't look like a 3d picture to me well that's because you're in the 2d screen you have to click here and oh it looks a little messy ok so we're going to clean this up a little bit because the definite definition here is probably a little bit too much although you could ruin this I think we can clean this up a little bit so you come here this is the smooth filter or smooth the relief so we click that and it smoothed it too much so what we're going to do is take it down and you know that's not bad I mean I do like to see all the individual hairs but of course the more complex this is the longer it's going to take to machine that's another thing you have to think of too so if you fetch it back a little I think sort of get rid of a little tiny bit of the detail and get a happy medium this will machine quite you know quite quick okay so are we going to go with that I think so you can definitely tell what it is okay so we're gonna say okay okay so the next thing we're going to do is we're going to draw a boundary box then so we just come here to the square and out to deep so we've got snap turned on as well if you notice that the cursor will change and snap and we just want to machine the area of our material we're going to lose just the edges there but that's okay and we're going to apply that create and come back to model in 3d having that selected come here to the toolpath I'm going to do this in one pass with a tape of two millimeter extended cutter it doesn't require you know sort of removing or doing a roughing cut it'll do this in one cut it's a carbide cutter and it will do quite a number of these before well you can't really sharpen them so so we're going to go straight in for the finishing first see three-quarters of an inch nineteen millimeter start that's okay top that's okay everything's okay there material boundary now remember we just drew a boundary box so that's selected correct for us to millimeter I just so ready setup actually from the last one that I did but we'll reselect it again okay and we want a standard standard raster okay let's edit this first that's not quite right is it two millimeter in there step over one to five this needs to be 24,000 rpm feed right I can probably push this to will go 60 and what I normally do is the plunge rate I'll put it 50 percent of whatever the feed rate is but this is my machine your machine might be a little different so we're gonna okay that okay ah my little mistake there let's calculate this you okay let's we'll simulate this well yeah I was immolated oh look at that that looks really quite nice I mean this has been a really really nice piece of wall out we can try a different material walnut light whoo no I don't think so [Music] let's try media milk now that's quite nice we could call this the golden lion that looks pretty good actually I'm very happy with that so now what we will do is post the code that's simply done by coming here to this symbol for a tuner to an hour three eight three and a half inch floppy disk output no yes that will do us quite nicely now if your machine is not listed here like house is listed talk further don't all mac is listed now you need to come here note depending on whether you have a automatic tool changer or whatever you have so you can scroll through and depending on you know whether you g-code here we go depending on what you've written it in of cifra we've done this tutorial in millimeters but if it was in inches i would be choosing this one so it put g-code millimeter tap now this is standard G code that every machine understands so that's what we will be using so save till paths and we'll be saving it it's not a fish so we just test we're just going to save this one is test what are we 12 just 12 and just a little bit of tool information too millimeter ooh capital for that Teva taper pour milk and put it out to my desktop and I can pick it up later and take it to the machine so isn't that very effective and it's such an easy process for you to do if you're a absolute beginner and you have veteran aspire you can do this so thank you for watching and please like and subscribe and pop along to my one of my channels I have two channels there with very near 450 videos on there and I hope you enjoy them so thank you for joining me and it's bye for now [Music]

Channel: Roger Webb Channel 2 CNC,s and more

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Length: 13min 46sec (826 seconds)

Published: Sat May 09 2020