Bit of a favour please, your magic on engraving !?

[Scorch]

@totts, I gave your image a shot.

I converted the image to a pbm file using convert
"convert file.jpg file.pbm" (I performed this in Linux)

Then I converted to DXF using potrace
"potrace -a .8 -u 10000 -b dxf file.pbm" (I performed this in Linux, there is a windows executable version of potrace)

Some of the detail was lost in my carving because I made it so small (4 inches tall) and my scrap wood was not flat.

I used F-Engrave to create the v-carve tool paths. The F-Engrave computations took a very long time (~30 minutes) for this complex DXF file. If you go this route I recommend you try F-Engrave out on something less detailed first to get the feel. (One pitfall: If you don't save the g-code then change a setting you will have to recompute the tool paths)

You will need also need F-Engrave version 0.5 (which is available yet) to read the potrace DXF output file (attached). Expect to see version 0.5 on the F-Engrave web page by this coming Sunday.

(Sorry to jump in on your discussion, I used this image as part of some program debugging I was doing. It turned out pretty nice so I thought I would share it.)

[EDIT removed DXF file and picture]

Scorch