Need a binary to CAD conversion

[Anonymous]

I have a file made up entirely of binary 1's and 0's. I need a CAD file made from this binary file as follows:

Every 1 is an elevation up, every 0 is down. Think of a chess board where some tiles are pushed down 1 level. There is 18,067 of these elevations to be made on four square surfaces. Excess space, and the borders of these squares is to be elevated significantly so as to provide form and safe groups. This means a 68x68 area per square. 

I would prefer this as a cube, with the top​ being an arrow pointing at the first square and the bottom being designed with a hole for a future mount.

I'm using this as the self funded form of my Technology. Later I'll need a permanent software solution and I'll be able to pay premium rates due to investments I'll get. This is a permanent data file, only 1.3kb in this weak example, but future examples will hold up to 500 terabytes per cubic inch of material (silicon or glass wafers in that version). 

Please feel free to contact me at michaelhh@gmail.com or call me at 971-533-3116. Let's talk cash and such.

[Anonymous]

Im not 100% clear on your request. I think you want to be able to load a file in a file thats just 0s and 1s and then have it converted to a 3D model.

This is certainly possible. You usually need to write an importer program that understands the input file and then can convert it to a model. Given that you output seems pretty simple, basically just incremental cubes, it should be pretty straight forward to get what you want. 

If you can share some more details - sample file, simple sketch of what the 3D would look like, etc - I could come back with some more specifics. 

[Anonymous]

Given the potential data set size you mention, you might give a look at ParaView and VTK for initial viewing, filtering, and simplification of your data set before converting it to a CAD model. This program and library were designed with large datasets in mind. Sounds like you have a fascinating application, perhaps AFM?

[ekinsb]

Just to update this, I communicated with the original poster a few days after the initial post and he informed me that he had found someone to work on the project and they already had some ideas on how to approach the problem.  I also found the brief description to be interesting and would have liked to have learned more.  Anyway, this probably isn't worth any more effort from the community.