Solidworks How To Auto Trace an Imported Image

[@TheCuriousOrbs]

Never had any luck with this tool. Retried it with your suggestions and managed to have a little more success with it. Cheers,

[@mikelewis2269]

Thanks for the video. I found if the picture is large or if I drag it larger I get a more accurate Autotrace. After the picture is traced I resize the sketch to the size I want.

[@BigC83Z]

VERY useful tut...curious as to why you couldn't move trace points on the wheelchair arc instead of recreating the arc from scratch (will test this out myself)...I agree with ZakarooNetwork the music is a soothing change of pace for background music...also, importing traced vectors from Illustrator or Inkscape (free) is a nice technique as well...

[@sameerdave8154]

Thank you very much... That was a great help. Saved me a lot of time just by learning this method.

[@cleartheory9854]

That was pretty neat and a time saver!

[@SeanPalmer62]

Thanks for that, some good tips, nicely put together as well.

[@rama1234ish]

i have the student version and i cant do the sketch picture, is there something i can do to fix that?

[@A1an_]

PSA: Every time I try to use this tool it looks like garbage even with a hi-res black and white image, I use Adobe Illustrator's Live Trace, export as a DXF, then import into a solidworks sketch. Comes out perfect.

[@mosth8ed]

lowlife03 Great info! Thanks for sharing it. I will have to give this a go.

[@Gobblegobble123]

lowlife03 could you help a brother out? if you could do that to my image i would be forever great ful

[@A1an_]

KGTHREAT I can take a look at it, Email me [e-mail]

[@Gobblegobble123]

thanks man ill send it right away :)

[@napornik]

traitor.

[@jochemwiggers]

hey man, Do you know why I can't auto trace? I don't have that arrow you have on your version. Is it because I have a student edition of Solidworks?

[@denisviveros8496]

i cant use this tool, when i go to the sketch picture tool, i cant select the option, and i have the autotrace complement activated, any idea why it happens guys?

[@wassymj89]

great tutorial thank you very much

[@captainjackiii5276]

Where's the plane of the thumbnail

[@JuliusHiiden]

very helpful

[@ZakarooNetwork]

I love the generic background music. who is the music artist? Just sharing a tip. Adobe illustrator does very accurate auto trace. Then you can import that vector file for precision creations.

[@MAMotinSobujsobuj23]

Thanks

[@idallan]

you're awesome

[@omgitzsteg]

It works about as well as most features in SW. LOL.