RE: G-code from pics...

["Pete Cook" <pete.cook-at-alltracorp.com>]

A small company  - Carken Products www.deskam.com has a program call DeskArt
that can convert from a picture to a cnc or dwg file.
they also have several other programs that can convert from drrawings to cnc
code. Relatively inexpensive as comp[ared to the rest of the market.

Pete Cook

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> I saw this pass through on the digest this morning...
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> >Matt Shaver has been working on a g-code builder that starts from 2D
> >bitmaps and derives z depth from grayscale.   His notion is to create
> >carvings from pics.  Your ideas here sound like it would be
> a terrific
> >complementary kind of programmer for carving a 3D shape from
> a 3D block.
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> Carl Mikkelsen
> cmm-at-alum.mit.edu
> www.foxkid.net
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