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I sent this to Ray directly when the forum was down for admin but thought it may also help some others.
I'm not sure this material would have helped but it may be useful in the future.
Its preformed and sculpted and colored HDU in sheets.
Available in interesting sculpted panels to look like driftwood, tree bark, bricks, bamboo, flagstone etc. Check it out at.
http://www.textureplus.com/
The driftwood style looks a lot like your photo.
Sample kits are easy to get and we have been waiting to use it for a wood grain background and pocket or apply letters etc in or over it.
Just haven't had the right sign for it yet but samples look very good and you can't tell the HDU sheet from the real thing.
Seems it would save tons of time for these types of backgrounds.
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Jerry,
Nice find! Thanks for the link!
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I've sent for the sample kit that Jerry mentioned. I'm anxious to see who we might be able to use these. The stone especially might be handy for support beams, etc.
Just have to wait and see how we might be able to work the woodgrain stuff into the studio.
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No problem at all with the smuggled post.
I had tried the bitmap texturing before but didn't like the way it turned out. I increased my scale and was amazed. Now if I can hammer out the speeds. Two issues here: My enroute 3 is not sending the feed rates to the shopbot. I talked with my supplier and he confirmed the same thing when he went through to test my theory. I set everything up properly in enroute as far as speeds but that information is not encoded in the file that is sent to shopbot. I talked with shopbot and they sent me to enroute. As far as that goes, I'm camping out.
The second speed issue is in cutting sign foam. What is my high end speed for 3d cutting it with an 1/8" ball nose bit? I have it set at 6 and 3 inches per second, which are what seem to be the limits of the shopbot software since that's how i'm having to set the speeds. Is it possible to change those limits?
Mike
