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    01-17-2021, 4:05 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread 3D Printing in the Woodshop? in CNC Machines
    I have been using a small 3d printer for several months now for prototyping and making useful parts. The most recent parts I made were some...
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    01-04-2021, 2:41 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    I can't open this one either. Here is the error message. Also you are using trial version 10, and I have version 9.5. Older versions apparently...
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    01-03-2021, 11:13 PM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    Hi Vince, I am not able to open files from the trail version of VCarve Pro. So all I have to go by is your Mary jpeg. Here is my manual trace. ...
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    01-03-2021, 9:22 PM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    Hi Vince, Are you using the "Trace Bitmap" command here, or are you manually tracing? Perhaps you could post the jpeg/bitmap file your are importing...
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    01-03-2021, 2:03 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    Vince - here are the resulting dxf files from the "trace bitmap" operations above. David
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    01-03-2021, 1:51 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    Vince - here are the resulting dxf files from the "trace bitmap" operations above. David
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    01-03-2021, 1:37 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    Hi Vince, Turning down the resolution on the scan will not help. You never said what your end goal is with Joseph. Is this simply to learn how to...
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    01-02-2021, 2:44 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    I use Inkscape quite often for auto-tracing of bitmap images. In general, I use a combination of Paint.net, Inkscape, and Design Edge (in that...
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    01-02-2021, 2:30 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    Hi Vince, The bitmap from the scan of your hand tracing with pen would probably take many hours of node editing to clean up as a usable vector file....
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    01-01-2021, 4:12 PM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    Hi Mark, I have downloaded your file and it does indeed have the usual problems from a hand trace. I will get back later today with a clean file and...
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    01-01-2021, 5:24 AM
    David Buchhauser replied to a thread V Carve Question in CNC Machines
    If you traced with a pen, then your tracing line width is probably so wide that both sides of the lines are being vectorized. You could probably...
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