Thread: a full size drawing saved a sa vector to machine in plasma, laser or cnc router

Good luck

not meaning to sound sarcastic, but digitising a drawing results in a series of series of straight lines that approximate the curves on your original drawing.
Depending on the enlargement -- drawing to prototype -- these straights will be more or less noticeable.

Is it possible to take the digitised image and convert it to vector curves?
The program I use is CorelDraw, which can trace a drawing into vectors.
Vector curves remain curves, regardless of the degree of enlargement.

let me get an answer on this from the expert

if you trace a design with freehand drawing you are getting a series of points that are connected with straight lines. The best answer is to say Logic Trace software can do BOTH freehand drawing and lines, arcs, and circles and I would need to find an example video of a pattern digitized with lines and arcs. The programs as quite a few selections tracing ,lines and arcs unconnected tracing curve through points point and circles



When I do a demo or talk to a person I use two simple examples - a heart and an ice cream cone with a hole in the middle. Freehand drawing for the heart and 3 points for the V, 3 points for arc, and 3 points for the circle

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The way I'd approach this task is
get a scan or JPG of the original image -- for this purpose it would be better if all the lines were thin, say less than 1mm thick.

I'd then ask Corel Draw to Trace the image to generate a vector file -- but for a simple shape like that horse, I might even redraw the image in Corel so that the number of points on each curve was massively reduced.

Once I had the vector image, subsequent manipulation is straight forward.

ian
I agree with you , i have done exactly what you're saying
Last year i made a custom case fora dreadnought guitar byt tracing his guitar
the table proved excellent
If diagrams are small then yes they can be scanned ,the horse profile i re-drew was 5 feet by 3 feet 1/4 thick
I have always drawn my plans ,well now i canb digitize them
i like it
stan

if you can get a square on image, then that's all you need to run Trace.
It doesn't really matter if the original is 5" x 3" or 5' x 3'