Friend wants a V-carving of USC logo

[Jim Underwood]

A friend wants me to create a v-carving of the gamecock logo. I'm manually creating the vectors right now, and it might take a while.

In order to keep design time down, it would be nice if I had a program that would create vectors from BMP file.

It also occurs to me that some of you may already have a DXF...
Any "givers" out there?

....OR suggestions on how to create the vectors more quickly... I'm working with ArtCAM so importing quite a few formats is easy...

[Eric Mims]

artcam can do that.. 'convert bmp to vector'.

[Jim Underwood]

Hmmm.. well I've tried it before, and the results were a bit messy. Perhaps 2010 has gotten better?

I'll give it a whirl and let you know what happened.

[james mcgrew]

i have them!! aspire has bitmap to vector function

[Keith Outten]

Jim,

Did you try to find the logo at any of the logo web sites like brands of the world?
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[Angie Orfanedes]

I did one for my son-in-law a few months ago. I think I pulled the logo from the Univ South Carolina web site. I used VCarvePro - tried to upload the file here, but it is not an allowed format. I'll see if your email address is on your website - if so, I'll try to send it to you.
Angie

[Gene Crain]

A friend wants me to create a v-carving of the gamecock logo. I'm manually creating the vectors right now, and it might take a while.

In order to keep design time down, it would be nice if I had a program that would create vectors from BMP file.

It also occurs to me that some of you may already have a DXF...
Any "givers" out there?

....OR suggestions on how to create the vectors more quickly... I'm working with ArtCAM so importing quite a few formats is easy...

...well if you were a dawg fan i have what u need...

go dawgs!

sorry jim/james

[Jim Underwood]

Gene, who said I'm a USC fan?

I practically live in the Bulldogs backyard, so I suppose defacto, I'm a UGA fan... although I have to admit my wife is much more apt to turn on the game than I am- not to mention she's a graduate.....(and I'm not.) But I'm just not that into watching guys chase a ball around the field... (Isn't that what dogs do? Fetch Boy! )

Seriously here's the result of ArtCAM's conversion utility- problematic at best. I'm much better off creating my own vectors than trying to clean up and modify that mess of nodes and disconnected loops.

[Jim Underwood]

James and Angie,
Please do send me anything you've got via the email section of my profile. I've downloaded the logo off of a Google image search and I'm tediously applying vectors manually...

Keith, I did a search on the website you mention but NADA on that USC gamecock logo..

[Eric Mims]

there should be a function in artcam to reduce the amount of colors in a bitmap. do that first, either in artcam or photoshop. Typically you should be able to make it 2 color, black and white which will help.. usually you can adjust the threshold between where black becomes white.. that way you can do the bmp->vector a couple times to isolate out different areas very precisely.

[james mcgrew]

the usc logo is held tightly by the univ of sc. we recently provided the millwork for the renovation of the williams brice stadium and had to find a licensed (by usc) company to provide the block "C" logos

send me an email address, it is pretty easy in aspire

[Jim Underwood]

the usc logo is held tightly by the univ of sc. we recently provided the millwork for the renovation of the williams brice stadium and had to find a licensed (by usc) company to provide the block "C" logos

James,
That's pretty standard for any collegiate logo... Have you ever considered getting a collegiate license? We are working on getting a logo product licensed for UGA... You have to jump through a lot of hoops...
You can always email me through my profile page. I hate to stick an email out here, because the 'bots pick it right up, and then you're inundated with spam...

Oh wait, I can do it this way.. send it to: jimunder at colemancabinets dot com.

Eric, thanks for another tip. I'll reduce the number of colors on this and see if it's any better. Even if it does a better outline, I'll still have a zillion nodes to clean up... Any tips on how to clear that up?

[james mcgrew]

we have two camaster owners who have the license here in columbia, i got enough on my plate!!

sending file

[Jim Underwood]

You can have too much to do? Usually that only happens with my personal projects..

Hey Eric, reducing the number of colors worked pretty well. I ran it down to three colors in steps using artcams reduce color function, then turned the pixel tolerance to three pixels in the bmp to vector function... I still have the zillion node problem though...

[Jim Underwood]

Whoof. I got a pretty good vectors on my last try, but it still needs refinement. I'm about 3 hours into this, and I still have a ways to go.
I made the spacing between nodes about 40 pixels, and it sure did clean up a lot of excessive points... I should play with some extreme values to see how the various settings affect it.
I have the outline, the feet, the head, ane one wing cleaned up and ready. Gotta keep moving. I hope to cut this tomorrow... Got the CNC sitting idle until a designer puts a job in the shop.

Eric if you have any more good tips about cleaning up ArtCAMs vectors, I'm all ears.