3D Laser Engraving | How To Make A Depth Map Out Of Almost Anything | STL to Depth Map | Tutorial

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Published 2020-08-21

3d Laser engraving is an amazing 3-dimensional engraving down with a laser cutter. Many find this laser outcome extremely elusive and hardly many " master " the technique. Well, let me share with you everything I currently know and see if we can add this tool to everyone's belt. I'll be showing you not only how I engraving it but How to make a 3D Engraving depth map out of almost anything you can get your hands on and even better it's all free as we will be using blender.

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Time Stamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:12 - What This Video Is about
0:39 - What Is 3D Engravings / What Is A Depth Map
01:23 - Importing STL
02:11 - Scene Setup
03:40 - Camera / Render Settings
05:28 - Compositing Setup For Depth Map
08:13 - Exporting Depth Map
08:48 - My Laser Settings
09:43 - The Magic Step
10:00 - Things to Keep In Mind
11:15 - How To Get Vector Outlines Form Depth Maps
13:24 - Closing Notes
14:22 - Extra

All Comments (21)

@Keep-Making 2 years ago

If your viewer node does not have an export function try this out: https://youtu.be/UxvYij0EWWQ
@PrintThatThing 3 years ago

Awesome! Super cool video and breakdown. 👌 🆒️ 🙌
@ppmmonteiro 3 years ago

Thanks man!
@ThatGuy-go1ok 3 years ago

Great tutorial and thank you for your assistance. I hope to see more Glowforge tutorials your explanations are definetly worth a sub! - Cheers
@hcrusticdecor2665 3 years ago

Great video, thanks
@geauxracerx 1 year ago

BRO!!!!!! This is exactly what i've been trying to figure out how to do with my new CO2 laser <3
@ReelSpider 2 years ago

I get similar results from my xtool d1 with about 40 minutes laser time, thats with the 10w head, so I was astounded to hear that. Love the info, gonna have to learn blender I guess
@franciscosanchez3745 3 months ago

Eres el Mejor. Gracias.
@henryhbk 3 years ago

While my blender UI didn’t quite match this (latest version for Mac), it was good enough to get me through it. Thanks so much. I just used the default Glowforge’s 3D engrave setting
@christopheradams7942 1 year ago

Brilliant
@SaucemanSauceman 3 years ago

Good tutorial!
@gawni1612 3 years ago

dude you're a legend
@EFALANDONISSO 1 year ago

Ty for the video, thts amazing! s2 ...so, you know if a diode neje 3 max can making this 3d depth effect, using this way tips? ty n advance <3
@sylas9762 2 years ago

Hi Johnathan, I would like to ask how can I engraving ornament detail, copy it to other objects or files, and adjust it's length to match different size of objects? Basically re-use the same detail to multiple objects with different size. I'm trying to figure it out to make a set of keycaps. Thank you in advance. And thank you for those precision modeling videos with blender.
@CoupleofBunkies 3 months ago

Great video looking to making a horse I had one with greyscale and it did not turn out great
@craigdekeyser6824 3 years ago

Try these using some solid basswood sheets instead of ply. They'd probably turn out far smoother in the end
@xcx23cwea65 4 months ago

Thanks, I've been pulling my hair out figuring out "Bas-relief" for inverted engrave text. Now I just have to brainstorm Blender 😅
@agdtec 3 years ago

I have scrubbed wood with a toothbrush in alcohol as it does not affect wood, as water does. But I have not used it in the same 3d engraving as your doing. But the thinner the wood the more it can warp in water.
@skapricorn 3 years ago

Hi! Thanks for very useful and informative video! Which version of Blender was used in this video? I'm trying to save result of "Viewer" node, but I have no "Save This Image" option in "Item" tab.
@forresto 3 months ago

Cool! You could make 12 frames of animation and do a stop-motion engraved wood loop.