Your 3D application of choice probably has some way to select between “perspective” and “orthographic” view. You want “othographic”.
(that’s the buzzword you should search for, along with the application name, to bring up app-specific instructions)
If you’re looking for that in meshlab, it’s apparently shift + mouse wheel.
https://sourceforge.net/p/meshlab/feature-requests/7/
EXACTLY what I needed, thanks!
There is a fair bit of monkey business involved in figuring out how to get a decent orthographic depth map from meshlab. I wrote it up here in a separate thread.
Just getting to a place where I can use my glowforge… this is very intriguing… looking forward to working with the tools you suggested.
I know I’m necro’ing this thread - but this worked perfectly
Meshlab did exactly as asked
I went from “crap, I guess I’m gonna try something else” to “Done! Now to load it in the Forge” in less than 10 minutes!
Thank you
Best info! I’ve been looking for a way to translate my 3d work in Autocad to a grayscale depth map. Thanks!
A great share! Thanks