But I've been wondering if you could use the original 'double lines' produced from Trace Bitmap, and apply Extensions > Generate from path > Interpolate. It might be helpful to have some idea of strengths and weaknesses of different ones.)Īnyway, I have been thinking of a rather ugly way to use the trace result from the original PNG, but I haven't actually tried it, and have no idea whether it might work. (I really should do a search to find some other trace engines. And there truly are a lot of variables that you can tweak, so you might be able to achieve something acceptable, after much trial and error. You'll just have to try it, to understand what I mean.

Sharp corners get rounded, lines don't always touch each other where they should, curves may be distorted. It's hard to describe why, but it seems to make.not necessarily illogical choices about where to break paths and start new 's more the paths themselves do not stay true to the image. But it's probably not going to work for this image. I know about this one which does have a centerline trace option, and produces a single path result. And you could find many websites that sell packages of SVG or maybe even cutter sites that sell DXFs.ģ) There may be a trace engine, somewhere, that will do an acceptable centerline trace. There's a huge amount of those available for free at Open Clipart Library. That way the original PNG stays in the same file, in case you should ever need it again (perhaps to edit the SVG/DXF later or something).Ģ) Another way would be to find images that are already SVG/DXF. When you're finished, you could hide the layer altogether. You could have the PNG in a separate layer, and reduce the opacity, if that would make it easier to trace. And honestly, I'm not sure how folks manage this, but I can think of a couple of things.ġ) One would be to Import the PNG, and then use Inkscape's Pen or Pencil tool to trace over the lines 'by hand'.

You'll have to find some other technique to convert the PNGs.

If so, then yes, that's just how Trace Bitmap works. The 'CNC Router cutter' cuts wood, right? Not that it matters really, I guess, just curiousĪnd CamBam is the software for the router? You used Inkscape's Trace Bitmap to convert to SVG and/or DXF?

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