Originally Posted by
IMSlo
fkaCarel I appreciate your suggestion but honestly I have no inkling of what you are saying.
At least the thread is getting a little discussion now and that's what I wanted from the start.
I would like to take a moment to state my goal/dream for this project. I stated in my opening post that my router has not earned its keep. I invision making a smaller more portable router and carrying it to craft shows, malls, etc for the purpose of cutting silhouttes on key chains, small wooden blocks, and even etching in granite. The target market ( I just about made a rhyme) for this would be young unmarried couples drunk on romance who might be willing to pay to have their silhouttes on a keychain that would be constantly with them. Another market might be parents/grandparents of small children. The procedure would be to take a picture with a digital camera, down load it into this program, make a suitable outline, make a G Code file and cut the outline. Of course the customer would be invited to look over my shoulder at the whole process and approve the outline before running G Code. The time limit for the whole process should be under 10 minutes. I keep talking about scaling the coordinates because these items will probably be no higher or wider than 1 1/2". Maybe yall can understand more about what I am up against after this explaination.
Now back to the task at hand. It probably seems that I am bent on putting these coordinates in a database file. I am for at least two reasons. First I think it must be done in order to perform the vast amount of manipulation required. Secondly it has become a personal challenge. I have said several times that I would never try to learn another computer language. I have dabbled in GWBasic, QuickBasic, Pascal, dBaseIV and V, Clipper, MSAccess VBA, Bentley Microstation VBA, VB6 and now VB.Net. I don't claim to be an expert in any of these and in fact have forgotten most. I am very excited about and challenged by VB.Net. I want to at least scratch the surface of this powerful language.
Will this program every really be used? Probably not. It's really a dream but even if it is not used I will have the satisfaction of having struggled with it until I conquered it.
Please excuse my longwindedness.
BTW I have my database set up but am having problems connecting to it.