CNC Egg Shell Engraving

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CNC Egg Shell Engraving

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This is a CNC egg shell hollow out engraving procedure.

​​Prepare a Pic

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Get a image from the net or create your own image.

Compress the Height of the Pic to About 77% of Original

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The aim is to compensate the image distortion from flat surface to curve surface.

Sort Out the Sharp Corners From the Image

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As egg shell is very brittle, need to cut away the sharp corners at the beginning.

Sort Out the Protruded Portions of the Image

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Protruded portions will be broken easily. Need also to route the profile of the protruded portions at the beginning.

Construct Some Straight Lines

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The aim is to break the cut away egg shell portions into small pieces.

Prepare He Final Profile of the Image

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Prepare he final profile of the image as for final profile cutting.

Prepare the G-code

Prepare the G-codes from each image. Use Inkscape, ArtCam or else.
And merge the G-codes into a single G-code file.

Egg Shell Engraving

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Do the egg shell engraving by a CNC egg shell engraving machine.

Cleaning

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Clean the egg shell by bleaching solution.