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Unless I've missed it in the manual there's no facility for saving the mesh as an STL file so that it can be used in conjunction with other components in, for example, Fusion 360, for CAD and CAM. Is there one? If not, will there be one? (BTW, I've worked out how to do the conversion I want most, using the trial version, but I should like to keep all my CAM in one package).
PixelCNC doesn't currently support exporting of any meshes, only the saving of a PixelCNC project file and export of G-code. If you wish to keep all your CAM in a separate program then PixelCNC is probably not what you're looking for in the first place. There is a separate free command-line utility available on the PixelCNC page called TGA2STL which enables the conversion of uncompressed TGA images to STL mesh files, however. You could go ahead and give that a try instead if all you're in need of is a way to convert an image to a model. Good luck!
You'll have to manually open a command-line box and navigate to where you unzipped the TGA2STL exe file. Put your TGA images in the same folder to make it easier to use. You can also create a batch file that you can drag-and-drop TGA files onto that will automatically do the command-line work for you. In fact, I'm surprised I didn't include them in the Zip file. If you visit the TGA2STL github https://github.com/DEF7/TGA2STL there are 3 batch files named 'high', 'med', and 'low' .bat. You can save those to your TGA2STL folder and then you will just have to drag and drop your TGA image onto whichever one you want, depending on the number of polygons you want the mesh to have (i.e. quality level). You can also drag/drop TGA images right onto TGA2STL itself but you won't be able to control the quality level of the STL mesh it generates.
