{"id":360920,"date":"2025-12-22T03:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360920\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T03:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:32:13","slug":"engrave-wood-with-an-unmodified-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/360920\/","title":{"rendered":"Engrave Wood with an Unmodified 3D Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">It hasn\u2019t escaped the notice of makers that 3D printers, CNC routers, and laser engravers are all pretty similar. Snapmaker launched on that concept, offering different toolheads to make a single machine perform three different functions. But you can actually <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WcHOnkO5-Sg?si=jZXWY3BbOEv6o3HE\" class=\"hckui__typography__linkBlue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">engrave wood with the 3D printer you already own<\/a>, without modifying the hardware at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">This video from Arseniy\u2019s Lab demonstrates the idea on a Bambu Lab A1 3D printer, but you should be able to do the same thing on almost any FFF\/FDM 3D printer model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">This technique doesn\u2019t engrave wood like a CNC router or laser machine would, but does something more like wood burning. A 3D printer\u2019s nozzle gets very hot and if you touch that to wood, it will leave a little burned dot. Tell the printer to burn hundreds of dots in the correct places and you can create an entire image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">That doesn\u2019t require any modification to the printer itself, assuming you have control over the homing sequence, bed height, and Z offset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">But you do need to run custom G-code, since your slicer isn\u2019t built for this kind of task. To create that G-code, Arseniy built <a href=\"https:\/\/arseniys-lab.github.io\/wood-engraver\/\" class=\"hckui__typography__linkBlue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a web app<\/a> that anyone can use. Just set the parameters and upload an image, then the software will spit out G-code for you to load on printer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hckui__typography__bodyL\">This definitely isn\u2019t good for your nozzle, so make sure you have a spare for when you want to get back to 3D printing. But it is a great way to create some cool art with a machine that you already own. It also works for some other materials, like leather!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It hasn\u2019t escaped the notice of makers that 3D printers, CNC routers, and laser engravers are all pretty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-360920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}