Toolpath Question

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

You could just cut it as a halftone:

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: https://cutrocket.com/halftonehelp.php

Otherwise, you could play with the Threshold slider for Image Tracing:

Carbide Create - Image Tracing

We just posted CC 520 to: https://carbide3d.com/carbidecreate/download/ 520 includes a big new feature for us, Image Tracing. [image] You should be able to load a JPG or PNG and get a reasonable set of curves from it very quickly. A few caveats: Right now, it’s mono only so color images will be converted to black and white using the thresholds in the window. We’re not optimizing for very small images so some will work well, others won’t. We’d recommend images larger than 500px on a side …

and import each colour as a separate set of paths and assign toolpaths as desired.

If you have Carbide Create Pro you could then model things in 3D — but that would require a bit of tweaking on your part since there isn’t a natural mapping of light/dark to height/depth.