Turning a Wedding Invitation into a Cutting Board

It’s a Friday, so let’s talk about something other than Autodesk Forge.

From my blog post on Sunday, you can tell that our family and friends attended our daughter’s wedding.

When I got back to Autodesk, I decided to use one of our laser cutters to make a replica of Blake and Stephanie’s wedding invitation into a cutting board.

Like many things in life, it’s a 12-step process:

  1. I started by scanning the paper invitation that I received in the mail.

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  2. If I used just that image with the laser cutter, the image would have come out as one big blob.Here’s what happened on the first cutting board that I did for my brother-in-law.

    02oops

  3. To avoid a repeat of that, I used image editing software to convert the image to a bitmap.

    03withtext

  4. I could use that bitmap image with the laser scanner, and it would come out OK, but the text would not look so great. That happened to me on the first time that I made pathway signs for my…

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