Trying to find an easier way

[blrose88]

I am trying to find and easier way to trace this out and make it fit on a 24x24 sheet for a table. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick

[adbuch]

You could open your image with Paint.net and convert to black and white, and then adjust brightness/contrast and save as jpeg. Then import to Inkscape and auto trace (Path, Trace Bitmap). Try this with different cutoffs to achieve best result, then manually edit.

Or manually trace with Inkscape.

Or Vector Q on an Ipad will work well also.
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/vector-q- ... d599309610

David

[blrose88]

Thank you for the advice. I gave it a try and confused myself even more. I posted in the conversion board my paint.net attempt.

[adbuch]

I was suggesting that you use Paint.net to convert to black and white and adjust brightness/contrast as the first step before importing the resulting jpeg image to Inkscape for auto tracing.

In this case, the original photo does may not be suitable for auto trace. I would suggest manually tracing it.

[adbuch]

I would start off your manual trace like this. Trace the main outline first, followed by windows and other details as well as wheels. As you are adding the details, be thinking about which pieces will fall out when cut - like the windows. Also keep in mind the kerf width of your cuts as it relates to the proximity of adjacent cuts. You don't want to have details so narrow that they blow out when cut.

There are some good videos on manual tracing. Here is one of them.
David