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I'm new to the world of 3D Printing. What do you recommend for creating STL files from pictures? What I am hoping to do is generate them and mod them as needed.

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[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not easy for complex pictures, but if you have a simple png with a transparent background you can import it into blender or orcaslicer and then add to the z axis.