3D Printing: Autodesk Offers Free Software for Turning 2D into 3D
By Rob Scott
February 23, 2012
February 23, 2012
- CNET has posted a fascinating 2-minute video from SmartPlanet on how to convert personal photographs into 3D objects using new free software.
- Autodesk recently released 123D Catch and 123D Make, both of which create “a 3D model of your images, which can then be sent to a 3D printer or can be constructed out of cardboard as a template,” indicates the post.
- The video demo illustrates how multiple photographs of a garden buddha captured with a point-and-shoot camera are used to create a 3D model reference file in the cloud.
- The recorded textures of the object become a wire frame model that can then be sent to a 3D printer or users can print their own cardboard model via 123D Make that slices the model into layers.
- The company sees initial applications for hobbyists and educators.
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