[CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Image to solid

Thanks Ron

Just downloaded Meshcam and trying it out. of course, the relief conversion
is never how you expect it to be. Could spend a week touching up an image..

Regards
Roland

On 4 August 2011 16:39, Ron Thompson <ron@...> wrote:

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> On 8/4/2011 10:21 AM, Roland Jollivet wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > Has anyone got a, preferrably free, list of programs to get from an
> > image to
> > a 3d solid. There seems to dozens of close fits on the net, but most
> > of them
> > are half-baked. I'd like to know if anyone has found something good.
> >
> > I'm wanting to take a picture, say an antelope, and go from that to a
> > cropped file, and then add text onto it to produce a medal or coin at the
> > end of it.
> > I'm happy to end at a .stl file.
> >
> > Also, I have not found a simple program that allows an image to be
> cropped
> > in a round format, but being able to accurately set the diameter and
> > origin.
> >
> > Regards
> > Roland
> >
> I can answer part of this. A good photo editor like paint.net (free) can
> crop to a mask or a shape. Once you export this, you can import to
> Autocad, scale and move it to 0,0. I'm betting this can be done in free
> CAD like Draftsight, as well.
>
> What ever you are using for CAM should be able to select a point as
> origin when making tool paths. If not, you can always offset the part on
> the machine that will produce it. In G-code, you could use a G52.
>
> Free advice is worth every penny.
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