Nautical map conversion for carving

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

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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…