Creating an image suited to V carving from a colour image of a coat of arms

[Adamwoodward]

Hello Tod, got it to go! will attach a picture later.
Any idea why this will not produce an even v carve?
wolves chopping board.c2d (624 KB)

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

Because the lines aren’t evenly spaced. It even has self-intersecting vectors.
Pretty dreadful .svg, needs a lot of cleanup.

[Adamwoodward]

Thankyou Tod, would you recommend a good program i could use to convert an image into a decent vector to v groove?
This is the original image

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

If you’re trying to do a single V-carve, imagine the image as black & white. Which parts do you want black (carved) & which parts white (not carved)?

Unless you want to do multiple colors, like an epoxy inlay. Then you need to separate the colors and cut & pour each color separately. I’m seeing red, dark red, orange, yellow, white & black. And possibly several shades of gray on the helmet.

There’s no “Easy” button for this one.

[Adamwoodward]

Just a black outline really, no colours or pockets cut out, just as the image but traced lines.

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

A fairly easy approach for this is:

• print the colour image
• put a sheet of tracing paper/transparency over it
• trace the outline of what you want V carved using a Sharpie

Or, do the digital version of that:

• import the pixel image
• re-draw

See:

Let's Make a B (for anyone)

Ages ago, there was an elegant little pamphlet entitled “Let’s Make a B for Bennet” which Warren Chappell wrote and illustrated. Here’s a discussion of how to use Carbide Create’s new curve feature to draw a B. We start with an image of a “B”: https://www.flickr.com/photos/letterformarchive/38372487832/in/album-72157687338823192/ [38372487832_6b4562b0a5_o]

and

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 …

[jtclose (Jim Close)]

Here’s a ten minute attempt.
The image is small ( number of pixels ) so it doesn’t handle very well.

I used Paint.Net to make it grey scale, then Inkscape to Trace the image.
In Inkscape I remove the “fill”, add a stroke color and set the stroke width to 0.1 mm