Artwork sources

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

See:

Where to source "free" files SVG/DXF

Well, there’s a clipart library w/ Carbide Create: [image] [image] see: https://elements.carbide3d.com/ and there’s also: and Bob Warfield, of CNC Cookbook fame has: And the community had the following notes on the wiki: Often, clip art will be done in stroked lines which are not suited to most CAM programs — the solution is expanding the strokes and unioning them: Converting line art for drawing https://openclipart.org Lotus Mandala Vector Art Pattern Files | FreePatternsArea h…

for a general answer.

For the specific here, it should work to look up the rank on Wikipedia, e.g.,:

Lieutenant commander (United States)

click on the rank insignia:

Lieutenant commander (United States)

click on “More Details”

File:US-O4 insignia.svg

then download the original SVG:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/US-O4_insignia.svg

(note that this may require a web browser which does not convert SVGs to pixel images)

but also see:

Converting line art for drawing

Often clip art is drawn as a series of stacked stroked and filled outline, e.g., http://clipartist.net/svg/minimalistic-ray-gun-logo-black-white-line-art-svg/ which looks line, but is a confusing mess when one views it in outline mode: [inkscape_1] The solution is to expand the strokes, and punch out the white fills. In Inkscape this is done by: Path | Object to Path [inkscape_2] Then break everything apart (it is important to work in View | Display Mode | Outline) using Path | Break Ap…