Raster to Vector

[Ron]

After running the program and smoothing it, we are left with rough lines on low res pics. What is the easiest way to get good quality lines from the rough ones from the C hook?

 

Thanks

 

Ron

Industrial Tech Instructor

[Mark H]

So you are saying after running the Raster 2 Vector chook, you have some "jaggies" (rough jagged edges)? A couple of options come to mind...

 

If you want to deal with the rough lines, you could just use those line as a template and then create new splines over top of the jagged lines. From the main menu select Create, spline, manual then click all the points where you want the new spline to go. Depending on the geometry, you might want to have many small splines or one large one.

 

There are some settings in the R2V chook, you could try playing around with them and possibly the geometry will come in cleaner.

 

If you are converting from an .AI file (Adobe Illustrator) file, this should come in very smooth and not need any cleaning up. Of course if you had access to this type of file, you probably wouldnt have this problem.

 

There are a lot of posts regarding Raster to Vector in the regular main user's forum. To get a better response to your question you may want to repost this question there. And to find the old posts regarding R2V you could do a search on the keywords "raster" andor "vector". You should get a ton of old posts.

 

[ 10-29-2002, 04:51 PM: Message edited by: Mark H ]

[Ron]

Thanks for the advice. I have experimented with filtering a toolpath on a new level some with limited success. I have also done the manual spline thing too. I guess I was hoping there was some magical way to improve the toolpaths.

[Mark H]

No magical button that I know of. If you find one let me know. I end up doing a lot of manual cleaning up - manual spines and fitting arcs and lines by just skeching them in by eye. And then running a toolpath on them.

[Rich Stape]

I recently had to work with a rough bmp file in R2V. I gave up and went in to microsoft paint and cleaned up the art. After that, the toolpath was pretty clean and I still spent 4 hours claening up the MasterCam geometry. It was still quicker than trying to use rough art.