Slicer and Topographic maps

[john2day]

I have a student that wants to make a Topographical Map of her family farm for a school project. Question. Could  Fusion 360's Slicer help to create a file that we could send to a CNC Router? How might we go about developing that file? The thinking is at this moment a layered construction method using CNC Router cut MDF sheets.

[Anonymous]

Are you wanting this in 3d or 2d ? If you want 3d if you can get the DSM ( Digital Surface Model  which is a GIS file) than maybe you can convert it if you want a 2d and have the map you can turn it into an SVG. Below is a link to a converter I use. With the SVG you should still be able to press pull to get "elevation"

http://image.online-convert.com/

Martin 

[john2day]

Hi Martin,

Thank you for your ideas. In the end she wants to build up the individual layers of the Contour map into a 3D map of her farm. At the moment I am trying to find a supplier of digital maps so that we can use Slicer to 'SLICE' the contour lines/shapes from the map into layers that a  CNC router or laser can recognise. Thinking about it could Slicer work that out from an google map image?

[john2day]

Hi Martin,

I can get a detailed DSM  file of the farm image using Government mapping services...very cool. What the question is, Can Fusion 360's  'Splicer'  slice up a file that will follow the contour lines suitable for a laser to cut out ...if that makes sense 

[daniel_lyall]

you will need the height map image of the map.

this link has some good links in it http://johnflower.org/tutorial/finding-height-maps-web