RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] FaceGen software conversion to CNC

> Has anyone done a conversion to get a photograph of a human face (not a
> 3D laser scan) into a suitable transfer software program to run on a
> CNC machine?
> If so, what format did you use and what was the reproductive quality of
> the finished item?
> Thanks,

You convert it to a bitmap, and drop the colours to 256 greyscale. If you
think of white being 0 and black being 255, that becomes the Z axis, that is
a deep cut looks darker than a white cut.

I wrote something to do this myself, but there are programs like ImageCarve
or Bmp2CNC to do it for you. http://www.vectric.com have stuff too.

http://www.a1digitalart.com/Buy_Now.html for some examples.

Tony