Converting Clipart ?

[S_McNau]

Hi Ladies and gentleman; I am a some what newbie with mastercam V8 and V9, and a small Techno Mill. My teaching responsibilities have kept me from getting into mastercam in detail, but I being from Missouri would like to give out my Ind. Technology Awards at the end of each year and would like to engrave the outline of Missouri on a 6"X6" Plaque, Anyway to make a long story short what program do I need to convert a Missouri Jpeg into a file Mastercam Mill will read and engrave.

[Midwest]

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Been covered quite a bit in the past..........

 

 

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[Midwest]

Welcome to the forum

 

 

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Use the Ras2vec converter. C-Hook Alt-C and click on Ras2vec. You can import several file types with that. Remember though, the better the incoming file, the better it will work. Don't start with something that was scanned in other words. If you put a 'bounding box' around it to determine the size it comes in as, you can then use that size as a scaling factor to make it what size you want it to be. Divide the size you want it to be by the measured size from the bounding box. HTH

[Rick Damiani]

I've had a lot of luck with Corel Draw's Phototrace on color photos and scans. It posterizes the photo (changes it to look like a cartoon) and generates vectors around the colored areas. I used it recently to generate splines around some light-colored wood pieces I scanned with a scanner. The color difference (tan against white, plus shadows) wasn't enough for Ras2Vec to deal with, but I got very nice splines from PhotoTrace. The vectors can be exported as AI or DWG files and read into MasterCAM that way.

[Kannon]

I was a laser engraver, and Corel Phototrace is the way to go for the raster to vector.