3D Terrain Carving CNC Step-by-Step Guide

In this comprehensive tutorial we show you detailed steps involved in how to take topography data from any place on earth and recreate it on your CNC machine. In this guided walkthrough we cover using Blender and Fusion360. This could also be done in Vectric VCarve Pro. —If you have any questions please ask them in the comments. Hope you find the tutorial useful.

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In this tutorial we carved the topographic map out of a piece of oak hardwood. The roughing operation was done with a 6mm single flute carbide endmill, and the 3D carving was done with a 1/16 Inch ballnose endmill. We used the superglue and painters tape method for hold down. The carving was finished by pouring in epoxy resin tinted blue to recreate the water / river.

Software Used:

Google Earth: https://earth.google.com/
Terrain Data: http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/
Blender3D: https://www.blender.org/
Autodesk Fusion 360: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fus...