Using FreeCAD + PathWB for Laser cutting workflows

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Re: Using FreeCAD + PathWB for Laser cutting workflows

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skal wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:57 am Is this something possible ?
It's possible in the sense that it could be written but it doesn't exist yet.
Give it a shot!
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Re: Using FreeCAD + PathWB for Laser cutting workflows

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I started to try the litophane workbench to convert the image to a 3D mesh, it works pretty good.
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I still need to deeply check the meshing granularity, as the generated file is huge for now, and a bit useless ;-)
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