This is in response to a question by Hank DeVeau at the Plasmacam Owner's Community Online Forum, but which was accidentally deleted by one of the moderators while he was attempting to "split" the thread.
"This is a picture of a paper template, cut to size, a customer has brought me to be cut from steel. I have drawn reference points on it hoping that when converted I can use them for scaling.(36" between points) Can this be converted with ink scape and if so how do i do it? It would be too easy for you to do it for me but I have another one similar to this and there is a possibility of more to come so it is probably a good idea to get this figured out!!
Thanks in advance for all your help.
Oh yeah, I tried to do it in DE but it comes out too dirty"
Robert Johnson addressed Hanks question with some great information about using the Spline tool to pretty quickly manually trace the imported image of the template - and with great results. Robert also mentioned that he had made a video showing the process he used, but I'm not sure if it has been posted anywhere. In any case, I have another solution for Hank - which I did post to that forum - but was accidentally deleted by moderator John Derby.
Hank - if you spray paint your template flat black and place on top of a white background before taking your photo, this will make it very simple and quick to do an Auto Trace Design Edge. For future projects, this may be easier for you than using the Spline tool and manually tracing.
