So been running Lightburn since last year, its at best 2.5D leveraging greyscale and many layers.
How will Millwork manage full 3D, especially creating 3D images and editing them?
J
Lightburn is not 2.5D, it is a 2D laser control application with limited Zaxis control. Those Layers are not layers like in an onion. They are individual process steps that can be turned on and off. 3D layers cannot be turned off.
MillMage is a 2.5D application with Zaxis control. It is not a 3D application where you can do contoured surfaces (you get discrete steps instead). MillMage does not support IJK contouring which is required for true 3D milling.
[Side Note:] Contour milling requires a 3-axis, or more, machine which has position feed back like resolvers or linear scales. Few of have one of these on our table top or in the garage. 3D printers do not have these because they are actually 2.5D and use slicer software.[End]
Although Lightburn and MillMage share a very similar development environment, they are very different applications. It is true there is some crossover with the applications, but you either laser or mill.
As you can see, it (MillMage) will not.
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For now, it won’t.
In the future I expect to add features similar to Aspire for modeling using depth maps, but it will not be a true 3D modeling package.
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