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Say Hi to George! 

This is an exercise in raster to vector conversion with the final part being a 3D image derived from the original clipart.  The raster to vector conversion takes place in Accutrans, as does the development of the 3D STL model.  The actual tool path is developed in StlWork.

Note: all the images on this page are thumbnails.  Clicking on them will open a larger image in your browser. 

• First create a .bmp file with the image to be processed.  It should be a 256 or less color image.  For this example we used a clip art picture of George Washington found in the Micrografx Graphics Suite.  We used Picture Publisher to crop and adjust the color palette to 256.  The file was then saved as George.bmp

• Next we processed the file in Accutrans.  Use File-Open, and select BMP to DEM.  Accutrans created a file called George.stl.

• After the file is saved to a STL format, open it in StlWork and develop the tool paths

• The only thing left to do is cut the part.
  

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