Carving a landscape photo

[Studioz (Peter Zarra)]

How To Carve a Photo with a CNC Router

[drewschrader]

Can this be done with CC or CC Pro?

[wmoy (Winston)]

No. But there are numerous styles of faking this kind of greyscale image, and some pattern generators can export SVGs that you could then import into Create. As an example, you can google: Halftone Generator.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

We do have a tool for this on Cutrocket:

Halftone generator on Cutrocket

This was announced/demoed in a limited way a while back — had occasion to reference it in a support ticket recently, so here’s the text from that: We have a halftone generator which will accept black and white images, so you will need to convert any image into a black and white picture. That is the only type of picture the generator will accept. Help file: Halftone Generator - Help

[jtclose (James Close)]

What is the effective difference between saving a image as greyscale versus halftone ?

It would seem that halftone is less accurate. This is a newspaper print technique.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

If you are using a b/w (monochrome) output option, then a greyscale image will need to be rendered as a halftone.

If you have multiple values per pixel, that is the definition of greyscale.

[jtclose (James Close)]

Ok, starting with a BW image I agree. You would need some “trick” to simulate grey.
I am used to color images.