I've been searching through the archives for information about routing a sandblasted look on a background of a sign. I'm using enroute 3 3d and also use flexi and the corel suite.

I've been playing with the apply bitmap feature in enroute, trying to add a woodgrain look to the piece, and it just doesn't look right--it looks very bitmapped.

I did find a picture that is similar to what I'd like to see here: http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/mes...312/16002.html But for the life of me, can't figure out the easy way to do this. Was each individual grain programmed and done with a v-bit? Or was this an automated feature of whatever software to which he referred?

Any tips or suggestions are most welcome.

Mike