symmetrical hart shape in vectric v carve pro

[Neale]

...and with Bezier curves so you can tweak points and directions, you can do reasonably well. I must take a look at some software my wife uses to convert bitmap drawings into vectors which then get digitised for a computer sewing machine. It seems to do better than things like Adobe Illustrator.

[GEOFFREY]

I have posted here a couple of times asking if any is aware a good quality raster to vector converter, but have cometo the conclusion that there probably isn't one!!! I usually end up photo-copying the image as large as possible onto a piece of "clear" tracing paper (or some printable acetate that my wife uses) selotaping that onto the screen and using the line tool just keep clicking every couple of mm round the image (yes symmetrical sections get mirrored). I then convert the lines to splines, edit the splines to get the shape I want and then covet the splines back to lines (I can't put cutter paths on splines). G.

[Bazzer]

Hope this helps, in trace bitmap I used following options
1. Black/white
2. corner fit 43%
3. noise filter 10
4. bitmap fading none
5. apply

seemed to come out ok, I'm not always so lucky

[cockneyrebel]

hi thanks for having a look for me i have to try in my program as when i try ed to open your saved file it can up that yours it a later version than mine :-( i will try the setting thank you

[Bazzer]

I've saved 2 files to dxf, heart1 is a single vector, heart2 is the bitmap tracing of your image.
cross fingers :)

[alboy]

I do a lot of bitmap tracing and the only way I can get a nice clean result is to either use the trace command and then node edit the resulting vectors or manually draw over a background image, drawing and tracing with vectors is nothing like drawing with a pencil, takes loads of practice.