Thanks to all that helped. For your interest I used the WinTopo freeware program and did as said below. It worked perfectly.
Thanks again Fred and Mike. Regards, Anthony. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Gailey Sent: Friday, 6 July 2001 12:57 a.m. To: Lauzus, Frederick; SMARTCAM Subject: Re: [mfg-smartcam] bmp logo engraving http://www.wburrows.demon.co.uk/softsoft/wintopo/index-free.htm Download the free version of WinTopo. Open the bitmap, convert it to greyscale. One converted to greyscale, you can save as a DXF in the freeware version. The DXF will give you a vector file, lines and arcs for machining. Depending on how far you want to machine, you can register the WinTopo Pro version for $150.00 and convert to greyscale and then extract a 3D image based on the greyscale depths that WinTopo calculates. If you convert to greyscale, in Paint Shop Pro, there is an author who wrote a $70.00 DOS program that reads greyscale bitmaps and generates the mill toolpath from the image. The author's name is Arthur Ross, the progran is BMP2CNC.EXE. His email is mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] His URL is http://www.desktopcnc.com/id208.htm If there is anything else just ask, Michael "Lauzus, Frederick" wrote: > There is an archive of the mfg-smartcam mailing list maintained by Kelly D. > Grills > http://www.kdg-engineering.com/~kdgrills/smartcam-archive/index.shtml > > > ============================================= > Fred Lauzus, CAM Programming Coordinator > High Steel Structures, Incorporated > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.highsteel.com > ============================================= > > > -----Original Message----- > From: oasis engineering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 3:01 PM > To: smartcam > Subject: [mfg-smartcam] bmp logo engraving > > Hi all, > > Quite a while ago this came up and I can't find it in the archives at all. I > have a bmp file and I want to convert it to toolpath to engrave a customers > logo. Does anyone have the old emails about this or can someone list the way > to do it. > > I tried opening it in Autocad as a bmp, saving as a dxf, then importing it > into smartcam but it failed at the last part. > > Thanks for any help you may give. > > Anthony Roddick > > Oasis Engineering > New Zealand. > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== -- Visit our Programming website at http://www.microsystemsgeorgia.com/toc.htm Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
