Woodgrain Effect need to learn

[mattie]

Looking for any helpful hints or tricks to design woodgrain effect for some cedar signs. I use Parts Wizard for my routing. Flexi is my designing software. We have some previous signs that were made with the woodgrain effect on the shopbot. Looks like they use a 1/8" end mill.

Thanks

[blake_koehn]

Dan Sawatzky has some very nice wood textures for sale.

Check out his website at www.imaginationcorporation.ca (http://www.imaginationcorporation.ca)

I don't see where you can buy them on his website, but they were advertised in the last issue of SignCraft Magazine.
By the way he is one of my heros!

[mikeacg]

Blake! Dan just became one of my heroes too! Amazing stuff!

Thanks for sharing his site!!!

Mike

[myxpykalix]

Not sure if this will help but you might try this: http://www.woodgrain3d.com/

[joe]

Blake and Jerome,

To use texture files like Dan's you will need a 3D program. He's uses EnRoute 3-D and exports to a Big Iron MultiCam. Great talent and good equipment.

Since Jerome already has Flexi, which is part of EnRoute, his existing files would import directly.