SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — 2D to 3D conversion (brightness->height)

Re: 2D to 3D conversion (brightness->height)

2014-08-20T18:33:59Z

Nice. I have done the method of turing the 3D image into SVGs and then importing them into Tinkercad and back out. But my way does not give any variable height to the image, so that is a neat trick.

Re: 2D to 3D conversion (brightness->height)

2014-08-20T14:37:10Z

(meant to include source image, after inverting colors to get the correct relief)

2D to 3D conversion (brightness->height)

2014-08-20T14:35:17Z

I found a way to take a grayscale image and convert it to 3D for printing, and thought I'd share. The site 'shapeways' (dot com) sells 3D items from your own designs, but allows you to download the x3db file for free. The free app netfabb (basic, also free) will open x3db files, and allow you to export stl parts.

My daughter is a fan of bands like Avenged Sevenfold, so I'm making her a cell-phone case with the Deathbat image created this way. This is a small test print to make sure it was going to work the way I intended. As you can see, the wings are not quite right, but I can easily fix that and re-create the stl.