Anyone have one of these? I've got a LaserCAMM here at work I'm using to
score pieces of birch plywood with my kids faces. Works really well, and my
parents are puzzle buffs, so I thought I'd make them a wooden jigsaw puzzle
of the grandkids. Slap the plywood on the laser, etch the kids faces in it,
then fire up the pattern and cut out the puzzle. Should make for a really
cool 40th wedding anniversary present. I just need the jigsaw puzzle
pattern in a DWG, DXF, or even an Adobe Illustrator file.
Anyone have a link to something like this? I've Googled unsuccessfully.
Thanks in advance
Mike Rinken
Not legal advice, however it is to my knowledge that one can make up to 25
units of a US. patented device for their own use. You are limited to not
sell these devices for 'profit'. There are no 'Patent Police', it is up to
the patent holder to locate infringements.
FWIW. 'Coke' and 'Pepsi' submitted incomplete formulae's for their product
as 'Patent Pending' and continued to do so for years. Same protection as a
patent without making the entire details public information. There are
people that hang around the patent office waiting for new items to become
public information, in turn they sell these ideas to foreign manufactures
and promoters located where the US. patent protection is not recognized.
--
Chipper Wood
useours, yours won't work
"Brikp" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have seen puzzle designs on the USPTO (US patent office) website believe
> it or not. They would be .tiff files but if you have illustrator maybe you
> could have it trace the images for you. You will need a .tiff viewer
plugin
> for your browser to see the images.
>
> Of course you could be infringing on somones patent.
>
> Check out these patents:
> 1,531,542 Simple puzzle
> D267895 very simple puzzle
> D320050 Complex angular puzzle
> D409256 Complex puzzle
>
>
> at
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
>
> Have fun
>
> "Creamy Goodness" <creamy at agbf1942 dot com> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Anyone have one of these? I've got a LaserCAMM here at work I'm using
to
> > score pieces of birch plywood with my kids faces. Works really well,
and
> my
> > parents are puzzle buffs, so I thought I'd make them a wooden jigsaw
> puzzle
> > of the grandkids. Slap the plywood on the laser, etch the kids faces in
> it,
> > then fire up the pattern and cut out the puzzle. Should make for a
really
> > cool 40th wedding anniversary present. I just need the jigsaw puzzle
> > pattern in a DWG, DXF, or even an Adobe Illustrator file.
> >
> > Anyone have a link to something like this? I've Googled unsuccessfully.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Mike Rinken
> >
> >
>
>
I have seen puzzle designs on the USPTO (US patent office) website believe
it or not. They would be .tiff files but if you have illustrator maybe you
could have it trace the images for you. You will need a .tiff viewer plugin
for your browser to see the images.
Of course you could be infringing on somones patent.
Check out these patents:
1,531,542 Simple puzzle
D267895 very simple puzzle
D320050 Complex angular puzzle
D409256 Complex puzzle
at
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
Have fun
"Creamy Goodness" <creamy at agbf1942 dot com> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Anyone have one of these? I've got a LaserCAMM here at work I'm using to
> score pieces of birch plywood with my kids faces. Works really well, and
my
> parents are puzzle buffs, so I thought I'd make them a wooden jigsaw
puzzle
> of the grandkids. Slap the plywood on the laser, etch the kids faces in
it,
> then fire up the pattern and cut out the puzzle. Should make for a really
> cool 40th wedding anniversary present. I just need the jigsaw puzzle
> pattern in a DWG, DXF, or even an Adobe Illustrator file.
>
> Anyone have a link to something like this? I've Googled unsuccessfully.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mike Rinken
>
>
Same question for me I have line art type woodworking patterns I would
really like to get into my CADD program. I have a scanner.
HI...
Morris Dovey <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> CW wrote:
>
> > If you can post a decent JPG, I can turn it into a DXF.
>
> CW...
>
> Is there a software conversion, or are you ofering to do this the
> hard way?
>
> I spend too much of my time doing jpg --> DXF conversions manually...
I have used the trial version of this program on scanned line art and it works OK.
When is some of that spy satellite stuff going to filter down to freeware :)??
http://www.algolab.com/
Morris Dovey <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> CW wrote:
>
> > I have raster to vector conversion software. The quality of
> > the vector trace is dependant on the jpg though and the one
> > that was posted produced rather ragged results.
>
> Good stuff! Two operations that eat too much of my time:
>
> [1] I make a sketch (or line drawing) of something that I either
> scan or photograph and want to import into my CAD program; and
>
> [2] I take a photo of something - anything from an old barn to an
> interesting tree - and want to import that into my CAD program
> for carving into anything from a bookend to a cabinet panel.
>
> My CAD program does allow me to import image files; but to carve
> the images I want with my CNC equipment, I have to spend a fair
> number of hours re-drawing (tracing) the image manually.
>
> Is there a (preferably free, of course :-) package that'll do
> this for me?
CW wrote:
> Wintopo has been highly recomended in the CAD groups. I have never used it
> myself. The two that I have are the one built into Turbocad and Corel
> OCR-Trace. I don't use them often but I find that the convertion are better
> than hand tracing but not by a lot. You will probably have to do a fair
> amount of work to the vector drawing to get it to run smooth in your CNC.
> The attempt I made on the puzzle pattern was disapointing to say the least.
> Give Wintopo a shot, you might like it.
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/softsoft/wintopo/index-free.htm
Many thanks! I do expect that a certain amount of tweaking will
be necessary - but even a just halfway decent first approximation
may save a /lot/ of work.
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto, Iowa USA
CW wrote:
> I have raster to vector conversion software. The quality of
> the vector trace is dependant on the jpg though and the one
> that was posted produced rather ragged results.
Good stuff! Two operations that eat too much of my time:
[1] I make a sketch (or line drawing) of something that I either
scan or photograph and want to import into my CAD program; and
[2] I take a photo of something - anything from an old barn to an
interesting tree - and want to import that into my CAD program
for carving into anything from a bookend to a cabinet panel.
My CAD program does allow me to import image files; but to carve
the images I want with my CNC equipment, I have to spend a fair
number of hours re-drawing (tracing) the image manually.
Is there a (preferably free, of course :-) package that'll do
this for me?
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto, Iowa USA
Wintopo has been highly recomended in the CAD groups. I have never used it
myself. The two that I have are the one built into Turbocad and Corel
OCR-Trace. I don't use them often but I find that the convertion are better
than hand tracing but not by a lot. You will probably have to do a fair
amount of work to the vector drawing to get it to run smooth in your CNC.
The attempt I made on the puzzle pattern was disapointing to say the least.
Give Wintopo a shot, you might like it.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/softsoft/wintopo/index-free.htm
"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> CW wrote:
>
> > I have raster to vector conversion software. The quality of
> > the vector trace is dependant on the jpg though and the one
> > that was posted produced rather ragged results.
>
> Good stuff! Two operations that eat too much of my time:
>
> [1] I make a sketch (or line drawing) of something that I either
> scan or photograph and want to import into my CAD program; and
>
> [2] I take a photo of something - anything from an old barn to an
> interesting tree - and want to import that into my CAD program
> for carving into anything from a bookend to a cabinet panel.
>
> My CAD program does allow me to import image files; but to carve
> the images I want with my CNC equipment, I have to spend a fair
> number of hours re-drawing (tracing) the image manually.
>
> Is there a (preferably free, of course :-) package that'll do
> this for me?
>
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
>
Lucias Clay <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Did you ever solve this? I have a neat little plug in for Adobe
> Photoshop that lets me create puzzles. I can't save it to DWG or DXF
> though. I'll post an example in JPG format at a.b.p.w. Let me know
> if you can use something like that, I'll try to help out. It can be
> set to any number of rows and columns.
>
> Lucias
Lucias,
Please contact me at mwrinken at gmail dot com
I'd love to get this program from you. I'm thinking I can take the
graphic into Illustrator and export the image to paths, then saving it
to a DWG format for use in AutoCAD.
Did you ever solve this? I have a neat little plug in for Adobe
Photoshop that lets me create puzzles. I can't save it to DWG or DXF
though. I'll post an example in JPG format at a.b.p.w. Let me know
if you can use something like that, I'll try to help out. It can be
set to any number of rows and columns.
Lucias
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:29:16 -0600, "Creamy Goodness" <creamy at
agbf1942 dot com> wrote:
>Anyone have one of these? I've got a LaserCAMM here at work I'm using to
>score pieces of birch plywood with my kids faces. Works really well, and my
>parents are puzzle buffs, so I thought I'd make them a wooden jigsaw puzzle
>of the grandkids. Slap the plywood on the laser, etch the kids faces in it,
>then fire up the pattern and cut out the puzzle. Should make for a really
>cool 40th wedding anniversary present. I just need the jigsaw puzzle
>pattern in a DWG, DXF, or even an Adobe Illustrator file.
>
>Anyone have a link to something like this? I've Googled unsuccessfully.
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>Mike Rinken
>
--
The difference between snot and broccoli?
Kids won't eat broccoli.
Lucias Clay
I'm sure I could redo it in much higher resolution, or in a number of
other formats. I only posted that as an example to see if it was the
type of thing the original poster was looking for. Let me know if you
want me to try again.
Lucias
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 07:02:08 -0700, "CW" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>I have raster to vector conversion software. The quality of the vector trace
>is dependant on the jpg though and the one that was posted produced rather
>ragged results.
>"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> CW wrote:
>>
>> > If you can post a decent JPG, I can turn it into a DXF.
>>
>> CW...
>>
>> Is there a software conversion, or are you ofering to do this the
>> hard way?
>>
>> I spend too much of my time doing jpg --> DXF conversions manually...
>>
>> --
>> Morris Dovey
>> DeSoto, Iowa USA
>>
>
--
The difference between snot and broccoli?
Kids won't eat broccoli.
Lucias Clay
I have raster to vector conversion software. The quality of the vector trace
is dependant on the jpg though and the one that was posted produced rather
ragged results.
"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> CW wrote:
>
> > If you can post a decent JPG, I can turn it into a DXF.
>
> CW...
>
> Is there a software conversion, or are you ofering to do this the
> hard way?
>
> I spend too much of my time doing jpg --> DXF conversions manually...
>
> --
> Morris Dovey
> DeSoto, Iowa USA
>
If you can post a decent JPG, I can turn it into a DXF.
"Lucias Clay" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Did you ever solve this? I have a neat little plug in for Adobe
> Photoshop that lets me create puzzles. I can't save it to DWG or DXF
> though. I'll post an example in JPG format at a.b.p.w. Let me know
> if you can use something like that, I'll try to help out. It can be
> set to any number of rows and columns.
>
> Lucias
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:29:16 -0600, "Creamy Goodness" <creamy at
> agbf1942 dot com> wrote:
>
> >Anyone have one of these? I've got a LaserCAMM here at work I'm using to
> >score pieces of birch plywood with my kids faces. Works really well, and
my
> >parents are puzzle buffs, so I thought I'd make them a wooden jigsaw
puzzle
> >of the grandkids. Slap the plywood on the laser, etch the kids faces in
it,
> >then fire up the pattern and cut out the puzzle. Should make for a
really
> >cool 40th wedding anniversary present. I just need the jigsaw puzzle
> >pattern in a DWG, DXF, or even an Adobe Illustrator file.
> >
> >Anyone have a link to something like this? I've Googled unsuccessfully.
> >
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >Mike Rinken
> >
>
>
> --
> The difference between snot and broccoli?
> Kids won't eat broccoli.
>
> Lucias Clay
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:35:39 -0500, Morris Dovey <[email protected]>
wrote:
>CW wrote:
>
>> I have raster to vector conversion software. The quality of
>> the vector trace is dependant on the jpg though and the one
>> that was posted produced rather ragged results.
>
>Good stuff! Two operations that eat too much of my time:
>
>[1] I make a sketch (or line drawing) of something that I either
>scan or photograph and want to import into my CAD program; and
>
>[2] I take a photo of something - anything from an old barn to an
>interesting tree - and want to import that into my CAD program
>for carving into anything from a bookend to a cabinet panel.
>
>My CAD program does allow me to import image files; but to carve
>the images I want with my CNC equipment, I have to spend a fair
>number of hours re-drawing (tracing) the image manually.
>
>Is there a (preferably free, of course :-) package that'll do
>this for me?
there are plenty of raster-to-vector packages out there, at a range of
price points and optimized for various industries....