Camera System for CNC

I use a camera above a part of my machine bed to import a calibrated picture of irregular stock into vcarve. It works pretty accurate.

I have some posts about the overal setup here:

If you like me to go in depth on how to get a calibrated picture from lightburn to vcarve, I’ll be haappy to. Vcarve unfortu ately doesn’t support camera input (yet).

I use it mainly to allign carves with laser etches and to design carves onto irregular projects. It works well, once you work out all the weird headaches and brainbreaks.