Image popper

Shapeways used to let you put a base rectancle of material behind a popped 2D image. I need to makr stamps out of 2D images. Any ideas on how to do that?

The only current way to do this is to add a grey background to your image. I've requested that this option be brought back.

Here's an example with a grey background

and the result

The image popper linearly maps the brightness of your image to thickness. So, if you set a 3mm thickness in total, 100% black = 3mm thick. Use a 50% black background for a 1.5mm thick back plate etc.

To be 100% sure, you can download the model and measure it in NetFabb

Bart

It's not often that I know something that you don't, so I couldn't let that opportunity pass

Hi,

if you have a Windows PC, you could take a look at my free 2d to 3d application "eXtrudy", which gives you a lot of possibilities to turn your drawing/photo into an extruded 3d object:

https://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=14768 &start=0&

best regards, Hendrik