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  1. #1
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    3D engraving

    Hey I was just wondering if there were any good programs out there to turn a picture into a 3d cad file and from there end up with G code. I'm looking at doing some 3D engraving in wood at school but the programs arn't really for what I'd like to do.

  2. #2
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    Do a search , I seem to remember there being a thread
    on this not to far back.

    PEACE

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    Playing with mesh CAM right now and it seems to kick @$$. next week I'll try running a code at school and see how things turn out.

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    Cool!!
    Let us know how it turns out.

    PEACE

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    Try MeshCAM at http://www.robgrz.com/meshcam.phtml . It will let you take a bitmap and convert it into gcode directly. You can do a search for MeshCAM in the forums here to see what others are doing with it.

    Robert

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    Robgrz you're the creator of the program right... I'm going to do some work this weekend with photoshop and see what I can come up with and use the software to create my toolpaths and hopefully sometime next week I can get on the CNC at school and try and whip her out... I'll try and post some pics

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    I look forward to the pictures. Let me know what you think, and what could be done to make it better for your purpose.

    Since you're a photoshop guy you might be interested in a link I just found- http://members.fortunecity.com/brooksbank/psptut3/ . It's an odd way to do a photo relief but it's kind of unique too.

    Robert

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