Welcome Sign Halloween

[Up10design]

Here's a Welcome sign I drew up for a client... this is my first upload. 10" x 26"

welcome wimsy.dxf

welcome wimsy.svg

[plasmanewbie]

Hey Rick, great first share! Thanks for uploading that for us

[adbuch]

Hi Rick - very nice design. I don't know if you have tried to cut it yet, but there are a few intersections/crossovers that could be edited out to make it a cleaner file for cutting. I posted a few screen shots below for you to see.

Welcome Winsy dxf image.jpg

Welcome Winsy dxf image 1.jpg

Welcome Winsy dxf image 2.jpg

I did a quick edit/cleanup to remove these. What software program are you using to create your drawings? Some have the ability to locate these sort of defects. But in any case, it is a great design. Keep up the good work!
David

welcome wimsy rev. 1.dxf image.jpg

welcome wimsy rev. 1.dxf

[adbuch]

By the way, another quicker method to clean it up is to simply save the image you posted as a jpeg, and then to a quick auto trace with Inkscape. This is actually much quicker and less work than going in and manually editing the defective areas.

Step 1 - Import the image to Inkscape.

Step 1.jpg

Step 2 - Path, Trace Bitmap

Step 2.jpg

Step 3.jpg

Step 4.jpg

Step 3 - Save as dxf

Step 5.jpg

I opened the dxf with Design Edge to check it. It looks fine, and I now realize that when I edited your original I inadvertently changed the top right corner of the "E" - so I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention to your original image while I was editing.

Screen shot of dxf from Inkscape opened in DE.jpg

But here is the dxf from the Inkscape auto trace.

David

welcome wimsy from Inkscape auto trace.dxf

[adbuch]

Rick - let me know if you have any questions about my above explanation and i will be happy to try to answer them for you.
David

[sonbakler]

Hey David, great idea! Never thought of just doing a quick trace of a jpg version of the design. That would save a lot of time, great tip and somethign I am sure i can use in the future. So simple, why didn't I think of that.

[adbuch]

Hey David, great idea! Never thought of just doing a quick trace of a jpg version of the design. That would save a lot of time, great tip and somethign I am sure i can use in the future. So simple, why didn't I think of that.

I use this technique quite often, and it works particularly well with a nice clean black/white image like the one that Rick (the OP) posted above. For color images, I often open them first with Paint.net and convert to black and white as well as adjust the brightness/contrast to try to make it as easy as possible to auto trace. In this case, I also saved as jpeg from the original png. I think Inkscape will import png, but some of the other programs want either bitmap or jpeg.
David

HalloweenWelcome paint.net image.jpg

[Up10design]

Thanks for that... I actually uploaded the wrong file. Yes I had to clean it up as well. oops