[skipper_52]

Wow!!! What did I miss here?

I get double lines, a couple of circles, and not much at all really...what's the deal???

I included a screenshot .zipped file

Good question. the dxf opens fine. your bitmap looks like hell..pardon the pun. What did you open it with

[Weldtutor]

Wow!!! What did I miss here?

This is a shot of the nice file skipper 52 posted. Seems to open OK.

Do you have all layers open?

[ronald44181000]

Here is one of my latest creations. It's a cabinet door I designed with Vcarve Pro. I can provide the gcode for it for anyone interested.
I also have one for the fisherman in the crowd.

[Switcher]

Switcher what did you use to clean up the text on the safety icon? I got the outline cleaned up and converted to a dxf with no problem, but I couldn't get the text to clean up. Guess I'm going to have to find a new stylus for my graphics tablet.

I deleted the text like "rando", said , then added my own text. That image was kinda fuzzy to start with, so I did this:


1) Open the original image that "ParkerMillguy" posted into MS Paint, & did a "Save As..." bitmap.

2) Took the new bitmap to http://vectormagic.com & converted to a vector image, I used "Vector Magic" because it's fast, free, easy, & you can swap colors, in this image it had 1 black, & 2 shades of grey, I converted everything to black only. Then saved the free .png image to my pc.

3) Open the free .png image from "Vector Magic" into Inkscape, did an image trace, then deleted the shadow under the box (it just looked strange ), I didn't delete the text until I found something similar inside the Inkscape text tool, that way I had something on my Inkscape screen to compare the original text to, after I created a new text (fragile) I deleted the nodes of the bad text with the nodes tool (still inside Inkscape), resized & rotated the text to fit the image, then did a union of both the image & the new text (Path/Union), then saved as a DXF R12 file.


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A little info on "Vector Magic":

1) The free download link (.png) of a image conversion is at the lower left side of your browser window, when you finish the conversion steps.

2) Try to keep the original image that you import into "Vector Magic" away from the lower right side of the images outside border, the reason is that they add a small text to your finished .png image, you can add white space working inside of "MS Paint" before you do your conversion & it will take care of that problem.


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[rando]

RE: Shelby

Wierd, I opened it again, and it worked fine. Maybe time to do a repair on my mastercamV8....now that I see it clearly, a "nice job skipper" is definately in order

[ronald44181000]

Thanks Switcher I'll give it a try and see if I can copy your result.

[Switcher]

Thanks Switcher I'll give it a try and see if I can copy your result.

The finished .svg file that I was working with is in the .zip file, I posted earlier, If you want to take a look at that?

Also, another Inkscape tip:

After you create the text in Inkscape, it needs to be converted to a Path (Path / Object to Path).

Before you can do a "Union" of 2 objects you need to select both of the objects, a keyboard shortcut is to hold down both the ( Ctrl + Shift ) keys then click on both of the objects, that works good If you have a bunch of objects & only need to select 2 of them to do a Union (Path/Union).


:cheers:


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[Switcher]

New DXF File ---> Design 140


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[skipper_52]

Enjoy

[Weldtutor]

This one is for a spider!

[Weldtutor]

Another web for the spider.

[ronald44181000]

For all of you in the plasma crowd. I found a new (for me) website that has some fantastic patterns, www.ironshadows.com. They have around 850 different patterns available.

[davek]

Can anyone steer me to a dxf of a walking horse? A friend here at work is asking me for one.

[Switcher]

Can anyone steer me to a dxf of a walking horse? A friend here at work is asking me for one.

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New DXF File ---> Design 144


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[ronald44181000]

Checkout this picture of a horse walking along with its DXF file.

[RAGE]

simple...but efective

[ParkerMillguy]

Thanks guys for all of your help with the "Team Lift" icon. I've never played with this stuff before...it will be interesting to see what kind of results I get when I Toolpath this with Camworks.:rainfro:

[Weldtutor]

With all this horse traffic you might need a stop sign!

[RAGE]

Sometimes they have a mind of their own

[Switcher]

I bet my horse can outrun yours...