Hello All- Waiting on my PRO XL to arrive and just reading and watching videos. I have a question about importing pictures into carbide create. What’s the best way to do that. Thanks again, I appreciate having this forum.
Ken Kennedy
Hello All- Waiting on my PRO XL to arrive and just reading and watching videos. I have a question about importing pictures into carbide create. What’s the best way to do that. Thanks again, I appreciate having this forum.
Ken Kennedy
Black and white crisp images are best. Load them as a bitmap and use the trace image feature. If there is text you will likely need to recreate it as the trace doesn’t seem to do a good job there.
Depending on the complexity of the image there may be a lot more cleanup required to get to a useable image.
Thank you!! Appreciate it.
Depends on the sort of picture.
Vector images as DXFs or SVGs which are properly defined as filled/empty regions import well and are straight-forward to assign toolpaths to.
Typical SVGs and vector clip-art require a bit of cleanup:
Pixel images may be traced:
or placed on a background layer and re-created:
also see:
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