How to Trace an Image in Fusion 360
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- Fusion 360 Tutorial #8 - How to Trace an Image
This tutorial will teach you how to take an image, and import it into Fusion 360 so that you can trace it. In order to effectively trace the flowing lines that are commonly encountered in images, we will introduce the spline tool and demonstrate how to properly use the spline tool to trace an image.
If you're wondering how to use splines in Fusion 360, then this video tutorial is perfect for you!
Perfect. I knew what I needed to know quickly. Thanks!
Thanks for the tutorial. This was exactly what I needed to know how to do.
Thanks, this tutorial was a great help
Thanks, this tutorial saved me🙏😊
No, do NOT do this. It takes forever. Import the image into Inkscape, use the auto trace, and export to a SVG. Import the SVG to Fusion. Fast and super accurate.
I can't get my image to auto trace. any suggestions?
I want to thank you. You are the best. I spent like an hour tracing an image but this worked beautifully. I hope the next time you eat a watermelon it taste really good!
Many thanks for a GREAT! Tutorial. It was very helpful in the project I am currently working on.
John
Thanks, this was helpful.
You didn't explain how you grabbed the image to resize it. It would be great if you could explain the keys or buttons you use for each action
Great Job! How about a PRS style guitar body?
Paul Reed Smith!! I love em! I got the Tremonti SE..
Thank you!
Does fusion 360 not have an automated way of doing this? I just started on the program and I'm getting back into this after a break from what I was used to but I first started with AutoCAD, V-Carve, and some other program for generating my own vector based art (which for anyone reading who doesn't know, vectors are the dots being placed down) some years ago. V-Carve, and I believe AutoCAD had systems for setting up vectors on their own, so honest question.
Ohio gang! Also great video, it helped a lot.
Is there a way to make a straight point instead of a curve? Kind of like illustrator where you can make a point "flat" rather then curved. thank you for tut!
You can always switch to the "line" tool instead of using splines, but that requires ending your spline which you might not want to end. My advice is to keep using the spline tool and when you get to a straight section, place a few points really close together so that the spline "evens out" and then click and place them in a straight line like you wanted. I'm assuming you tried to make straight lines but they came out kind of bendy looking?
So I need to do exactly this, but I need to create a lip on the edge of it.
can you do a 3d model of some wrought iron ornamentation please!
GLORY!
How are almost all of the people I watch and look up to from the same state I live in?
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Nice video. I like it. It would be really cool to be able to trace a 3D object onto Fusion 360. Example: take a pair of scissors, trace it using a digital pen onto a Surface (or other) tablet. Is that possible without using splines? Or, do I need to trace it on paper, scan it, convert to an .svg file, import it, then spline it? And how do I know it is to scale in X-Y? Would love to hear from you on that.
All-in-all there's a handful of ways I can think of to do what you're asking about. What you're describing is most easily accomplished through 3D photogrammetry, or in other words 3D scanning. There are a lot of free apps you can use where all you do is take pictures with your phone of an object and then it converts it to a 3D file. I could also easily use a pair of calipers and a compass to reverse engineer most things, which could make for an interesting RUclips video. Lastly it would be relatively easy to take a photo of a pair of scissors from above, and then create a reference sketch in Fusion where you sketch and dimensionally define one line that represents a part of the scissors, then when you import the photo of the scissors to trace, you just re-size it to roughly match the reference sketch you created.
How do you add a image to body?
i kid you not, i came across this video to learn how to import an outline of the state of ohio in fusion 360... super weird!
"skatch"
IT WILL BE QUICKER TO USE ILLUSTRATOR
you're not wrong, however illustrator costs money while fusion 360 is free, and most people who watch my CAD tutorials are looking to get into 3D design not graphic design so learning illustrator wouldn't make sense for them. Also the quickest way would just be to take your image, use an SVG converter online, and then import the SVG into fusion and you're done.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Nobody does it this way. Bring the black and white logo into Illustrator or Inkscape. The autotrace options will do a proper job. Export as an SVG, and bring that into Fusion 360. Maybe Farmer John or a child traces manually this way, but no professional would.
What you're describing is "How to Convert an Image to an SVG" which is a very useful skill to have, however the point of this tutorial is to teach people the functionality of the spline tool, and tracing a wiggly outline of a state is actually a great example.
If the spline tool example were specifically what you were going for you would have titled the video that way or mentioned that there were other options in the video. I don't doubt you were sharing what you know, but this comment is disingenuous.