by Gigi » January 14th, 2020, 5:48 pm
Hi Allan -
First of all, if you want to upload a cut file, you either have to upload the svg file or put the Zip the SCUT file and upload. For whatever reason, the forum software sees the SCUT file as a virus and wont upload it - but that's how you get around it.
So the file that you uploaded, do you need the entire thing traced? 300 DPI is not a very high resolution as far as clarity and quality is concerned. How did you try a trace?
I did not import it first. I did trace image and then the trace box opened up. Then I chose your image that I downloaded (it imports very small - about 2 x 1.5 inches so that is part of the problem) and the lines are very faint in the rectangles. And it is tracing a lot of the text that doesn't need to be traced - which I can break apart and take out - but it seems like the file is not clean. It is definitely not coming into the program as an A4 size. And it is not super clean when I view it in preview or on the screen - there are crooked lines. I had to zoom in to see what exactly you had. Much better when I can zoom in and see it!!
My curved lines are smooth, but some of the straight lines are jagged. It's just not a clean image to trace.
You said you used the image before, but then you said you were making it in Photoshop so maybe you did something differently than before? Do you have the original image that you had no problems with? And can you be clear about what you are trying to trace and what you are not. I assume you do not want the text within the lines traced. But do you want the individual lines inside the boxes cut or just the outside?
Is there a reason that your straight buttress lines (using those as an example as you have others as well) extend over the lines? It would be cleaner if the lines stopped at the point of intersection as the trace is seeing those extensions as separate things to trace. I have tried several times and cannot get a clean trace - but I get nowhere close to the nodes you have. Once I had 300 and once I had about 1360 - not sure how you are getting so many. I tried single color and monochrome tracing - monochrome is usually the best and since it is picking up everything on the page you are getting things traced that shouldnt be. I know I am being redundant.
I would work on darkening the lines in the file and cleaning it up first. And a blackout trace will give you the best results, but will not cut the lines within the boxes - however you could separate those to get cleaner cuts.
Here is what I get when I trace - showing it in the tracing pop-up and in preview - that's why I say it needs some work, imho.
Not sure I am helping - just giving you feedback. Have you tried saving it as a jpg to see if that makes a difference? And I would separate the rectangles so you can do a blackout trace and eliminate some of the inside text. You can also, once you get a good trace, close the print layer, break apart the cut file and delete the tracings of the of the text so you wont be cutting the text. That's why a blackout trace would be better/easier, but you still have text and images outside of the cut images so there will be some cut outlines that you will need to delete....
I did this quickly - would work on a better image first and try again. I still dont know how you got 38,000 nodes, I was nowhere near that no matter how many times I tried or what I did.....
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