Create Lego skeletons with image contouring

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Create Lego skeletons with image contouring

Post by Denford Admin » Thu 05 Jul , 2007 16:58 pm

We have been improving the image editing and image contouring in QuickCAM and LaserCAM.
To test it out, we made some lego skeleton men from a small jpg image...
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The skeletons - laser cut (unfortunately forgot to offset the vectors to compensate for laser beam width)
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The original image used in LaserCAM 2D. Some cleaning was required, and the "toes" needed added
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Post by Denford Admin » Thu 05 Jul , 2007 17:02 pm

The new contrast / brightness / invert image features come in very handy when lasering or cutting out images - it makes it easier to adjust the image so that only the bit you are interested in remains.
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Post by boy1 » Tue 27 Nov , 2007 13:42 pm

Hi, that looks really good.

One of the schools I Technician at has just got a LASER cutter and I was wondering if you could describe the process for the above in a bit more detail, as I'd really like to do something like that for the students doing their GCSE's. I've only had a half day intro on the laser cutter and a few hours actually using it to cut out simple shapes and letters/numbers.

thanks,
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Post by Denford Admin » Tue 27 Nov , 2007 16:48 pm

Hopefully these pictures will speak a 1000 words.... (hopefully they will come out in the right order :oops: )
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Post by boy1 » Fri 30 Nov , 2007 9:55 am

Many thanks,

I'll try and have a go today. :D

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Post by boy1 » Fri 30 Nov , 2007 15:58 pm

well I gave it a try, and it worked out ok on a couple of tests. :D

Time to see if any of the students can use it for any of their projects.

I guess the more time you spend tidying up the contour the
better the results.

Thanks again,

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