A bunch of help here

[Zman (MICHAEL ZEMANEK)]

I have two images that I would like to clean up. They are hand sketches of my son’s race car. There are extemporaneous lines the person put in that I would like to remove. When I go into node edit, there are hours of work to get the lines even.

I use Inkscape as a novice, not sure what to do or how to do it.

In CC I can clean up a bunch of the extra garbage, some of the lines I am unable to remove correctly using node edit.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Don’t even know how to highlight areas I need help with.

The attached files are what I traced

Jason Front Ver 710.c2d (1.1 MB)
Jason Side ver 710.c2d (1.4 MB)

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

Those traces look awful. I would be tempted to just set my image as background & draw over it.
Or fix what you can, and draw in the rest rather than trying to edit the existing vectors.

Can you post one of the images? I’m curious if that’s the best trace you can get.

[Zman (MICHAEL ZEMANEK)]

I will try to get the original images. Or even have him get me some photos from the angles he wants

[Zman (MICHAEL ZEMANEK)]

At the moment this is what I have

[CrookedWoodTex (Tex (Don't Mess With My Texas!))]

@Zman What you didn’t specify is your end goal with this pile of vectors.

Some things are done better with photography, but there’s a niche for wood in there, too.

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

I can’t get any better vectors using Trace in CC. Perhaps Inkscape offers better tools?? But with the quality/nature of the images, I tend to think drawing it yourself may be the best solution.

There may be a way to apply filters, brightness, contrast, etc… to the image before tracing that could improve the result?? I’m an amateur Gimp user, and couldn’t come up with anything.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Carbide Create will do better w/ a better original.

Scan instead of photograph, or clean up the image in a pixel editor before image tracing.

If need be, one can re-draw by placing the pixel images on a background layer, see:

Carbide Create re-drawing

If one only has a pixel image: [image003] then one has three options: auto-tracing — EDIT: Carbide Create has since gained this feature: Carbide Create - Image Tracing using the pixel image using a tool such as MeshCAM or Carbide Create Pro’s texture feature re-drawing — this is a tutorial on this: Begin by going to Job Setup and setting the Stock Size and importing the image onto the background: [image]

or

Carbide Create drawing/tracing tutorial

@Bonch has a project which requires this very charming image: [WoodlandKidsLogo_BW] which is only available as a pixel image. Re-drawing it should be straight-forward: First, launch Carbide Create, create a stock area of the correct proportion, and import the pixel image and size it appropriately: [image] EDIT: Alternately, one could use the new Image Tracing feature:

or for Makita RT0701/0700 collet wrenches see:

Importing a file or a backgound image

I’ve searched, honestly, but I still can’t find out if the importing of images is fixed, or I’m just doing it wrong. Essentially, I drew around a spanner (wrench) with the intention of scanning it, editing the image in Affinity Photo, and then importing it as a background, to draw a vector over it, or as a vector. Except, it’s either the size of the Eiffel Tower: [Screenshot 2020-11-09 at 17.28.40] or the CN Tower in Toronto: [Screenshot 2020-11-09 at 17.29.38] Oh, and the stock size is …

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

That said, adjusting the Threshold (which now works dynamically in v7) may help:

Attached

car_tracing.c2d (520 KB)

[Zman (MICHAEL ZEMANEK)]

Thank you all for your help. I was wanting to clean it up enough for an image I could carve for a side lit sign.

I now have some avenues to checkout. I think I will have him get me some pictures of the angles he is wanting to try that also.

Again. Thank you for the help