Excessive Autosports Sign

MustangMat · Post by **MustangMat** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 10:18 am

Pretty new to plasma tables. Been playing around with making dxf files I can do the basic good friend of mine had a shop an it's hs 20 year anniversary. I want to surprise him with a cut out of his shop. Any help will be really appreciated. Guessing 2.5 feet long an 1 feet tall out of 14ga .074

Thanks Mat

MemFor · Post by **MemFor** » Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:12 pm

What exactly are you trying to convert? The whole thing or just the text?

MustangMat · Post by **MustangMat** » Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:27 pm

Just the text
Sorry for the confusion

MustangMat · Post by **MustangMat** » Wed May 24, 2017 10:46 am

What is a good program for tracing?

Post by **Larry83301** » Wed May 24, 2017 10:53 am

I use Inkscape when I want to trace a picture. IT'S FREE!

Larry

P.S. It works great with my graphic tablet!

YouTube · Post by **rdj357** » Wed May 24, 2017 12:45 pm

I decided to have some fun with this one - you can do it like this, try to edit the text back out or practice tracing the text from scratch! I used Paint.Net to remove the background before tracing. Then some clean up and bridging for this file. No guarantees but have fun!

Excessive Sign.dxf

MustangMat · Post by **MustangMat** » Wed May 31, 2017 9:20 am

Thanks a lot Robert! I will play around with it

Post by **plasmanewbie** » Tue Jul 11, 2017 10:24 am

Another sweet conversion rdj357! Thanks!

Pat4rd · Post by **Pat4rd** » Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:27 pm

Larry83301 wrote:I use Inkscape when I want to trace a picture. IT'S FREE!

Larry

P.S. It works great with my graphic tablet!

Hey Larry if you don't mind me asking what tablet did you go with? I'm trying to find one to run Inkscape.. I'm always adjusting nodes and I wasn't sure if a tablet or a laptop would be the best way to go.. i hate running heat in my shop just to draw up designs.

Post by **Larry83301** » Mon Dec 11, 2017 4:14 am

I got a HUION DWH69, it was on a great sale so I thought I would give it a try. It's wireless so I can sit back and just put it on my lap and go. I'm left handed so drawing with the mouse is rather hard as the buttons on a mouse are backward for me. It has a 9" X 6" active area with a resolution of 5080 LPI and you can screen zoom to get even better line placement. I haven't had a lot of time to learn how to use it, but what I have done was WAY better then I was doing with a mouse.

Here is one add for it so you can look at what it can do, BUT look around for a price as this one is more then I paid.

https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Graphic ... B00XVROO3S

Larry

Pat4rd · Post by **Pat4rd** » Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:54 pm

Awesome! I believe I'll give this one a try then. I'll shop around and see what I can find on them! Thanks

Pat4rd · Post by **Pat4rd** » Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:55 pm

Larry83301 wrote:I got a HUION DWH69, it was on a great sale so I thought I would give it a try. It's wireless so I can sit back and just put it on my lap and go. I'm left handed so drawing with the mouse is rather hard as the buttons on a mouse are backward for me. It has a 9" X 6" active area with a resolution of 5080 LPI and you can screen zoom to get even better line placement. I haven't had a lot of time to learn how to use it, but what I have done was WAY better then I was doing with a mouse.
Here is one add for it so you can look at what it can do, BUT look around for a price as this one is more then I paid.
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Graphic ... B00XVROO3S

Larry

Awesome! I believe I'll give this one a try then. I'll shop around and see what I can find on them! Thanks

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