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      willeykj
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      I'm starting to do some 3d carving with my CNC and I'm doing my designs in Sketchup. I need to create depth map greyscale images for import into the CNC software. Is there a simple way to get a depth map out of sketchup?

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        You could project a bitmap of a gradient 'through' the mesh...

        https://i.imgur.com/fK47s8S.png

        Then export an orthographic view as needed.

        https://i.imgur.com/XRfRYti.png

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