A cleaner Carveco depth map for relief work

Carveco offers deep relief modeling, which is exactly why an unchecked depth file is expensive there. Once noisy borders and compressed subject detail have been merged into a component, separating them again costs sculpting time and usually loses the original relationship between features.

Approving the field outside Carveco keeps that decision visible and cheap. If a border is noisy or a subject is flat, it is obvious in the comparison view and free to fix, rather than becoming an invisible part of a model that already looks finished.

Repeat work is the norm in a carving shop: the same portrait across different sizes, or a family of pieces that must match. Standardising the range — the same black and white points, the same inversion, the same flattening — is what makes those pieces consistent, and it makes a customer revision a matter of changing one value rather than starting over.

Keep the approved PNG with the project file. When a piece is revisited a season later, the reproduction path is a saved field rather than a guess about what the original settings were.

Carveco Maker, Carveco, and Carveco Plus differ in how they import and combine relief data, and the menus move between releases. Confirm the import path, units, combine mode, and zero plane in your own installed edition before you rely on a remembered sequence.

DepthCarve supplies prepared geometry or grayscale and stops there. It does not choose machining allowances, strategy, stepover, or post-processors, and it makes no claim about what a particular relief will do under a particular cutter.