Community challenge #28: Return of challenges

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

Here are some potentially useful/helpful resources:

https://elements.carbide3d.com/category/united_states_outlines/

https://elements.carbide3d.com/category/united_kingdom/uk_map_detailed.svg/

http://jthatch.com/Terrain2STL/

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/13425/export-vector-map

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/machining-a-topographic-model-in-carbide-create-pro/21335

Mt. Baker using Carbide Pro

https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/ is also awesome; that generates an STL directly from maps

Terrain Relief Models, Unabridged

Terrain Relief Models, Unabridged [IMG_20190415_104354-01] When I was musing about picking up a Shapeoko, the project I had in mind was carving a terrain relief model of Mount LeConte in the Smokies, and in my head I also had the trails engraved onto the model. In the quest to make this thing in my head a reality, I followed various trailblazers, perfected workflows, had epiphanies, scrapped entire workflows, wrote some plugins, added a laser, and eventually arrived at what seems to me like a…

Also, in case someone wants to do Hawai’i (which is too large to be grabbed in a single go last I checked):

Need help making a 2D of the Big Island of Hawaii

At: https://elements.carbide3d.com/category/united_states_outlines/ there is: https://elements.carbide3d.com/category/united_states_outlines/hawaii_detailed.svg/ If you wish, you could do a 3D model: Here’s an STL as a starting point: Big_Island_smoothed.stl (3.6 MB)