JPG toSTL

[johnsattuk]

Sceenshot of mystery pimples in toolpath

[cropwell]

Hi John,

The mystery pimples are single white pixels, which are difficult to see. I have blacked off the major stars with 'Paint' but the little ones are everywhere.

If you want to improve the doctored version and send it to me, then it only takes a couple of minutes to convert it.

Cheers,

Rob

[johnsattuk]

Hi Rob

I did or thought I did remove quite a lot of pixels in my clean version, I wonder if the jpg format remembers them for undo purposes.

Have had another session with paint, couldn't find any more pixels but used the flood option to see if that worked - Alien- clean mk2

Also had a look with Irfanview @ 40 x zoom and couldn't see any, Alien-clean mk3

[cropwell]

Try this https://www.dropbox.com/s/7no94ldimo...20mk3.stl?dl=0

[johnsattuk]

That one seems to have done the trick, machining time ~5hrs instead of 20, will cut one asap

Thanks for your patience and persiverance

[johnsattuk]

Have cut a half size one, for machining time reasons, and it looks very good. Full size one will be better for the smaller detail, I used a 1.5mm ball nose which was a bit big for the fine detail.

[cropwell]

I tried out a 3D print

Looks better as metal

[johnsattuk]

Many thanks to Rob, has printed a logo for me, has much better detail than I could have carved

[johnsattuk]

Used plenty of laquer to glue the print to the wood, gives it lot of sparkle in the sunlight

[cropwell]

Glad to help. I expected it to be sprayed gold, but shiny wet-look black is more in keeping with the original.