Many Thanks to Mike aka 'ProbablyLegendary' for providing me a great Derby Cover for my 48 to engrave.
I first painted it with green primer to provide a good scanning surface and scanned it with a NextEngine 3D scanner. Then surfaced it and imported into Solidworks. After some fiddling setting up my planes and axis I was able to use HSMWorks SolidWorks plug in to toolpath using their project tool path feature.
This let me project a 2D dxf file of the EGA onto the curved surface.
I then cut it with a 30 deg engraving bit.

The next step is to paint the engraving and polish the outer face. I'll update with a final pic when done.

 

Outstanding! Improvise, adapt, overcome.

 

I'm pleased how it turned out. Thinking of painting another satin black and cut it.

 

Sorry for the resurrection, but did you create the EGA file?

Just curious as I created and uploaded this solid model to grabcad back in 2012:


https://grabcad.com/library/usmc-ega

Either way, it looks great on there!

-WRM

 

yes sir !! Thats what I used !!
I hope you dont mind.
Thanks for a great job on the Model.

 

Nope, don't mind a bit. Glad it worked out for you, and it looks great!

-WRM

 

Great work man, congrats!
Do you mind to share the solidworks file so we can do the same?
Thanks!

 

Sure thing. Its on my work PC and I'm off for another week. PM me your email and when I get back I'll email you the SolidWorks file of the cover and an STEP file for use other cad systems.

 

Good Morning,

Nice cover design, I too would like a copy of that solidworks file! Any chance you would be willing send it to me ?

Thanks

 

It's available for download in the link in post 4. Sign up on GrabCAD and feel free to download what you like.

-WRM