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PhotoVCarve Tutorials

Tutorials

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The following video tutorials explain how to use PhotoVCarve and introduce the key features in the software. Click on the links below to download and view the associated files.

Remember - you can cut all of the sample file supplied with PhotoVCarve on your own machine. You can also load your own photograph, but the results will be water marked when machined

 

This tutorial introduces PhotoVCarve and shows how to work with the Sample Files that can be cut on your own CNC machine. It explains how to change the job size, cutter details and fianlly save the toolpath ready for machining.

Tutorial 1 Video + Audio (11 Mb)

This PhotoVCarve tutorial shows how to Carve a wooden panel from a photograph of James Dean.

Tutorial 2 Video + Audio (5 Mb)

This PhotoVCarve tutorial shows how to Engrave a childs face into a piece of brass.

Tutorial 3 Video + Audio (7 Mb)
Getting Started with PhotoVCarve.PDF (1.5 Mb)

This PhotoVCarve tutorial shows how to Carve a decorative picture from a photograph.

Tutorial 4 Video + Audio (3.5 Mb)

Remember - The toolpaths for all of the tutorial files can be saved and run on your own CNC machine.
PhotoVCarve can also be used to machine stunning Lithophanes and this tutorial shows how to take a photograph and calculate toolpaths to cut a lithophane into corian or plexiglass.

Machining Lithophanes Video + Audio

Machining_Lithophanes.PDF (2.5Mb)

 

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