Signalétique en relief

“Back then I would never have believed that I could make a very decent living from something as fun and creative as designing and making carved signs”

He had a lot to learn in a very short space of time,

“Everything seemed so difficult at first because I didn't even know how to run a computer”

Dan started by meeting a sign crafter who was leaving the business for retirement. He gave Dan some advice and some simple vector designs to help him get started. Dan initially designed the signs and outsourced all the cnc machining work.

“For the first three years I was getting all the routing done by a local cnc workshop. By the fourth year, my accountant advised me to think about finding a replacement for the cnc routing services ....I had given them over $25,000 that year.”

On the back of the financial advice, Dan decided to look into the possibilities of running a CNC machine himself. Dan explains.“So many questions went through my mind, so I started surfing the web and found a local cnc router designer / builder. He told me I could be in business very soon since a new affordable and user friendly software was now available. That was the first time I heard the name Vectric."

"I worked with VCarve Pro right at his shop and he gave me the link to the trial version. After downloading the trial version I simulated many of my designs and quickly learned the process. Since then my cnc router has probably paid for itself at least three times.”

And goes on to say,

“What I like most about Vectric software are the updates and improvements with every new release. The new features likenesting and prismatic lettering, easily programmable inlays allow me to push the routing envelope and helps us increase the beauty of the designs we can now give our customers.”L'enseigne présentée ci-dessus est un projet récent que Dan a publié sur le forum Vectric. Il explique gentiment comment il a conçu et réalisé ce projet avec VCarve Pro.

Étape 1 - Importation du fichier vectoriel

« Fort de trois ans d'expérience en conception avec Corel Draw avant d'acquérir VCarve Pro, j'ai conçu la mise en page dans ce logiciel, puis j'ai utilisé les outils d'importation simples de VCarve pour importer rapidement le fichier EPS dans VCarve Pro, prêt pour le calcul des trajectoires d'outil. »

Étape 2 - Calcul et prévisualisation des trajectoires d'outil dans la vue de simulation

« Après avoir configuré les trajectoires d'outil, l'utilisation de la fenêtre de simulation 3D est indispensable ! »

« C'est un excellent moyen d'éviter le gaspillage de matériaux et de temps d'atelier. »

« Cette enseigne de 1,20 m x 3,60 m a été usinée en deux moitiés sur la fraiseuse CNC. »"We used features like prismatic lettering and ornaments. The letters are not glued, so this sign will not have letters falling off or messy drip marks under the letters. Nothing makes gold leaf stand out as much a prismatic letters. Add some drop shadows and voilà !!!"

Dan also uses Cut3D for more dimensional jobs and below are a few designs he has modelled with Sketchup, then exported as STL mesh files and machined using Cut3D:

“This project was a challenge to build, but the Model Slicing feature in Cut3D made it simple to get the model as light and cost effective as possible."

"The name of this Ice cream shop is “Daddy, Stop” so we had to make it look like the kids were really convincing! This one is a show stopper, people from everywhere (local highway 133 leads to U.S. highway 87) stop by to get pictured with the yellow car and screaming kids, and grab some Ice-cream...”« Pour ce nouveau projet, le propriétaire du camping souhaitait un décor de plage nocturne. Grâce à VCarve (utilisé pour découper le panneau arrière) et Cut3D (pour les éléments en relief), il a obtenu exactement ce qu'il voulait ! »

« Globalement, je suis très satisfait du logiciel Vectric. Il est rapide, agréable à utiliser et mon investissement est très rentable ! »

Daniel Gervais, propriétaire, vendeur, concepteur, opérateur CNC, soudeur, installateur et bien plus encore…

Visitez le site web de Wood & Passion Sign Workshop et découvrez le travail exceptionnel que Daniel et son équipe réalisent avec leur fraiseuse CNC.

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