opencarve_AR

AR carving guidance using raw material assessment and stl file

AR Subtractive Carving

A framework for manual subtractive carving guided by augmented reality. This system assesses raw stock material against a target 3D STL model and projects real-time carving guides (contour maps, depth heatmaps) to assist manual material removal without CNC machinery.

Architecture

• Acquisition: Captures the current physical state of the stock using RGB-D camera tech.
• Processing: Aligns target STL with stock, computes material removal volumes, and generates iterative carving layers.
• Vision: Tracks physical block state and manages real-time calibration for projector-based AR.
• UI: Projects visual overlays onto the workpiece to indicate material to be removed.

Getting Started

1. Configure configs/default_pipeline.yaml with your camera/projector intrinsics.
2. Place raw stock scans in data/raw_stock_scans/.
3. Place target 3D models in data/target_stls/.
4. Run scripts/run_pipeline.py to initiate the projection alignment.