Basics For CNC Beginners: Tracing Images in VCarve

Follow along as we show you how to use Vcarve to turn an image into vectors. Before you know it you’ll be carving images you never thought possible on a CNC.
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[@ericbarley3160]

This series for beginners is great stuff! Nice job!

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Thanks Eric! We appreciate the kind words! Keep us in the loop on your LongMill journey!

[@ChinJazz]

Awesome "Sauce" Labs!

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Thanks Adam!

[@JeffCalloway]

What if you have a images that has several elements that blend together? I do high relief hand carved pieces of popular animated characters and looking at using a MK2 to do the router outline carving of my drawings that I put together in Illustrator or have been generated through AI engines. Im thinking it just best to manually trace them. I have tried several software trials to se ehow this would work, ie Carbide, Scan2Cad, Designer. Any help would be appreciated

[@SienciLabs]

If you’re using Illustrator to create images you can export vectors for the outlines, then there’s no need for tracing your image at all - if I understand you correctly.

[@JeffCalloway]

@@SienciLabs Thanks for the quick response. I'm as green as they get 😁. Im not creating from scratch, Im not that good - lol. I will pull in images from Adobe Stock, other commercial free images, and then text and put them together to create a project. I also have Inkscape. Im going to have to take some online classes.

[@robertdehart7128]

Talke to fast can not follow

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We're sorry to hear that you're not able to follow along. We'll try to keep that in mind for future videos!