How to probe for point cloud to make surface in Rhino
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:50 am
Hey guys I'm new to the forum and have very recently changed over from Mach3 to UCCNC (and huge thanks to Balazs and Gerry who've helped enormously ... and to my engineer friend Geoff who was able to complete the installation - I couldn't have done it without such help).
I am taking unevenly shaped pieces of wood (old timber slabs) to make signs from them. We want to leave the natural uneven shape, and engrave lettering on them. So I would like to be able to probe and create a point cloud from the surfaces. How would you recommend doing this? Gerry suggested using the autoleveler plugin, but I don’t understand how you would use that.
Firstly I need to have some sort of UCCNC plugin to create the file of points from probing a specified area. And also if anyone has any ideas I'm using Rhino and could use some advice on a method/ software etc that can drape a surface over the point cloud.
I am taking unevenly shaped pieces of wood (old timber slabs) to make signs from them. We want to leave the natural uneven shape, and engrave lettering on them. So I would like to be able to probe and create a point cloud from the surfaces. How would you recommend doing this? Gerry suggested using the autoleveler plugin, but I don’t understand how you would use that.
Firstly I need to have some sort of UCCNC plugin to create the file of points from probing a specified area. And also if anyone has any ideas I'm using Rhino and could use some advice on a method/ software etc that can drape a surface over the point cloud.