I’m new to the world of 3D Printing. What do you recommend for creating STL files from pictures? What I am hoping to do is generate them and mod them as needed.
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Meshroom
But you need a ton of photos.
The technique is called photogrammetry
You can try one of these AI apps. https://makeit3d.app/explore
Not easy for complex pictures, but if you have a simple png with a transparent background you can import it into blender or orcaslicer and then add to the z axis.
I used vecto3d, but it was just to visualize something quickly so I have no idea how the STL export is.
What exactly are you asking?
It’s pretty easy, for example, to turn an image into a grayscale .bmp and convert that to an elevation map that roughly creates an embossed/engraved surface.
It’s not easy to take photos of objects and turn them into 3d models of that object. It’s pretty much impossible from a single photo, as well. It’s possible, but usually fairly complicated- it’s called photogrammetry and there’s tools and plugins for blender that can do it; but it’s very hit or miss.
There’s AI tools to assume the 3d shape from the 2s image.
Imagetostl
