HELP WANTED

[Ricky4x4]

HI GUYS I WANT TO CONVERT A PICTURE OF ONE OF MY FRIENDS CAR WHO JUST PASSED AWAY INTO A DXF FILE. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

[Ricky4x4]

DIMAS 2.jpg

[Ricky4x4]

DIMAS.jpg

[Joe Jones]

I normally jump onto requests to draw files, but right now I have enough to keep me busy all day long. When do you need this file? A day? A week? Anytime?

Joe

[sonbakler]

Check this topic out, would give you a great start and save a lot of time viewtopic.php?p=200863#p200863

RockCrawlerHangerF32.png

[ben de lappe]

I normally jump onto requests to draw files, but right now I have enough to keep me busy all day long.

That's my issue as well. I love to help but being so far behind in my drawings already just don't have the time unless it's something super easy to me. This one would take me a considerable amount of time.

To the OP - The first step is to determine what size you'd like this piece to be.

[jmersereau]

Here is a quick first attempt at capturing the image, it needs a lot of cleaning up and bridging...

First Attempt.dxf

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First Attempt.png

I will try to work on this more a bit later.

Jim

[adbuch]

Here is a quick first attempt at capturing the image, it needs a lot of cleaning up and bridging...

First Attempt.dxf
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First Attempt.png

I will try to work on this more a bit later.

Jim

Jim - this looks good! Is this a LightBurn auto trace? If so, could you please screen shot your LigntBurn auto trace window so I can see exactly which settings you are using.
Thanks,
David

[jmersereau]

Jim - this looks good! Is this a LightBurn auto trace? If so, could you please screen shot your LigntBurn auto trace window so I can see exactly which settings you are using.
Thanks,
David

David, thanks! Very quick, less than 5 minutes... I used VECTOR Q on my iPad first with the "INK" filter and then a simple trace in LightBurn with the standard defaults. The only thing I changed is that the eyes didn't get picked up so I added those in LB as well. I think that I learned the Vector Q trick from you, or someone else, on this forum.

Jim

[adbuch]

Ok - good to know. I do use VectorQ for some projects, and usually followed by additional editing with Inkscape.
Thanks!!
David

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[Ricky4x4]

I normally jump onto requests to draw files, but right now I have enough to keep me busy all day long. When do you need this file? A day? A week? Anytime?

Joe

anytime is fine I appreciate the help

[jmersereau]

What is the desired size of final product?
What is your normal kerf width?
What material are you cutting this out of?

Here is a cleaned up version that still needs work but not without your answers to the above questions.

Rock Crawler v2.dxf

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Rock Crawler v2.png

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Jim

[adbuch]

This is what it would look like when cut.
David

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