That technique worked well in that logo. I was hoping at one point you were going to add suggestions for cleaning it up, other than individually correcting any artifacts. I've spent ages before working through a bit of the image at a time. Do you have any suggestions?
That logo was relatively easy to convert. The simplify path works to some extent but all depends on the subject. Trouble is the amount of b spline curve nodes that inkscape creates through the trace bitmap process. I spent some time going through the settings and none really reduced this factor. I am going to experiment with other image programs to see if the amount of b splines are reduced including Adobe illustrator. It will be interesting to see the comparison. I tried to create a macro to clean things up but again limited success. I even tried some machine learning to see if anything can be done but that got complicated very quickly. In the end if I need to do any further cleaning up to allow for fillets and chamfers I normal adopt the quick trace option using the corners of the svg as a constraint as in video 2 or 3 (forget which one). I have some interesting freelance work coming up with a much more complex logo on a curved surface which I have plenty of time to do and experiment and I hope to get something to share with the community and also get the client using CAD in his own shop. I think the silver bullet is to get that b spline node count down, somehow.
@@MangoJellySolutions Fair enough - I was just hoping you'd found some magical fix that I didn't know about. When I've found that images are too complex for the auto trace then I've usually just created my own trace having the bitmap on the bottom layer and then drawing points around with the polygon tool until I get what I want. It gives a crude representation, but the quality depends upon spending a lot of time. Thanks for your video though.
I like to put the part of the design that you want at FreeCAD’s “origin” at the 0,0 point (upper left) in Inkscape. That way you don’t have to translate the position later.
I'm new to Inkscape and just have a quick Question. When I try to reverse the image I don't get the nodes in the corners so I can't complete that step. Anyone else have this problem? I'm using V 1.2
You sound like Maurice from IT crowd... thx for the vid, was looking for this.
Lol that made me laugh. I spent a lot of time in the same area as where the actor grew so it's probably an accent thing. Glad you liked the video
Oh and I do work in IT lol
That technique worked well in that logo. I was hoping at one point you were going to add suggestions for cleaning it up, other than individually correcting any artifacts. I've spent ages before working through a bit of the image at a time.
Do you have any suggestions?
That logo was relatively easy to convert. The simplify path works to some extent but all depends on the subject. Trouble is the amount of b spline curve nodes that inkscape creates through the trace bitmap process. I spent some time going through the settings and none really reduced this factor. I am going to experiment with other image programs to see if the amount of b splines are reduced including Adobe illustrator. It will be interesting to see the comparison. I tried to create a macro to clean things up but again limited success. I even tried some machine learning to see if anything can be done but that got complicated very quickly. In the end if I need to do any further cleaning up to allow for fillets and chamfers I normal adopt the quick trace option using the corners of the svg as a constraint as in video 2 or 3 (forget which one). I have some interesting freelance work coming up with a much more complex logo on a curved surface which I have plenty of time to do and experiment and I hope to get something to share with the community and also get the client using CAD in his own shop. I think the silver bullet is to get that b spline node count down, somehow.
@@MangoJellySolutions Fair enough - I was just hoping you'd found some magical fix that I didn't know about.
When I've found that images are too complex for the auto trace then I've usually just created my own trace having the bitmap on the bottom layer and then drawing points around with the polygon tool until I get what I want. It gives a crude representation, but the quality depends upon spending a lot of time.
Thanks for your video though.
Thanks for the technics or artifacts in Inkscape
No problems glad you found it useful
I like to put the part of the design that you want at FreeCAD’s “origin” at the 0,0 point (upper left) in Inkscape. That way you don’t have to translate the position later.
Really nice tip. I like it! 👍
I'm new to Inkscape and just have a quick Question. When I try to reverse the image I don't get the nodes in the corners so I can't complete that step. Anyone else have this problem? I'm using V 1.2