Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Tiles

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Cool. Looks great!
If you still wanted to use XPS for how easily it can be textured. It lasers pretty good.

XPS FOAM, Cutting a Movie Title

Lots of mixed data on laser cutting foam board, so for those that are interested in using XPS, Yes it cuts great! Here is some info: XPS is extruded polystyrene foam, its most often seen as the blue “Styrofoam” or pink “Foamular” rigid insulation foam you can get in building supply stores. EPS is expanded polystyrene foam made of lots of little foam pellets that is most often seen as packaging or as the material in cheap coolers. EPS is what most people think of when they think of “Styrofoam”,…

Engraving XPS Foam

[IMG_4583] Well It works!! … and it doesn’t. This is a Z-brush alpha map of cracked mud brought in as a jpg. Cut speed 1000 variable power set for a max of 20. [IMG_4570] Fine line etching into the surface works pretty great but the nature of the foam means a fairly uneven melt depth, and large areas of engrave will turn into a gooey mess of unpredictability. [IMG_4571] Here is a macro shot of what the variable power setting does to XPS at 90 lines [IMG_4575] So even with the melt limita…