Creating a Wedding Present
A dear friend of mine had started his own upscale bar in Iowa, and I had the perfect idea for his wedding gift: a custom-made charcuterie board for his new endeavor.
As we can see from the CAM simulation, the piece worked great! I wish I had saved photos of the finished product, but I did not trust myself and had to keep from ruining the surprise for my friend.
By the time I had gotten around to making this, I had done a series of engraving jobs on lasers and some furniture pieces on large CNC routers, but this was my first serious engraving attempt on a large router.
I had to navigate a series of software suites to take the bitmap logo my friend had sent me and turn it into a vector which could be engraved in CAM. The logo started as a photo of a hand drawing, which I then traced in Inkscape. DXF output in Inkscape turns the part into a polyline, but I needed to retain the splines. Fortunately Fusion 360 can accept SVG imports.
