Import Image Trace - Single Line Drawing Issue

Easel
#1

I am attempting to carve an image that is a simple Line drawing of a logo:

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I want to carve the black in the image out of a white coated MDF board.
I have attempted to use every one of the four combinations of options in image trace. This is the one that appears to work from the Image Trace App.
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It imports as one very large image with two smaller images inside.
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I want to get rid of the large block of border that surrounds the outer circle. To do so, I attempt to select just the large image, and then edit points to delete the four points that define that outer block. When I do so I get this as a result:
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The entire image inverts to where the parts I want to be white turns into tool path, and tool path become uncut material.
I have not spent over 4 hours working on this with no acceptable results.
What am I missing?
I do not see the changing of the image as a feature, but a serious bug.
I still don’t understand why the image imports as huge single part.

Suggestions?

#3

by deleting the outer shape, you have also deleted the outer boundary of the fill.

Try dropping the threshold. You may have to take i into an image editing program and clear out the beige color.

#4

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#5

Trach Outlines results in double lines and makes the image way to complex to repair - or even view.

#6

Beige color is from the natural background of MS Office Picture Editor. The image doe snot have a background. The image is a .PNG format. So, there is no "background outside of the rounded outer edge.

#7

Tried that with both of the slider settings. Still came through as a big blob image with no internal detail lines.

#8

One thing that I did that did work was take the image and port it into a jpeg file - which forced a white background into the image, and then saved it. Then imported it with a lower threshhold and smoothing. That appeared to work. Testing the carve now.

Still carving - but the detail is much better than past attempts. I am not sure if it was the lack of a white background in the .PNG file, or that the file was a .PNG file in the first place. I will do some more testing and report back.

#10

svg file for the logo.

#11

Thanks BF.

#12

Bigger problem now - the machine is not cutting the whole image. Ad the only red that shows up in the 3D rendering are the tool travel paths. I am using a .125 30degree v cut. Depth is set to .085 so just to cut through the top layer, and the bit is set to a .3MM cutter. This worked yesterday without issue, but now the job is not running complete. The software is taking forever to simulate - and when it completes only half the image shows up in the rendering and in the material.

#13

Kept running the simulate until the entire image showed up in the render - and now it says it will take 9+ hours to run. And before it was only 43 minutes.

#14

can you publish the project and post a link so I can open it

#15

Well, I would share it, but I am getting a message the “OPPS” message. Job has been running for over an hour, cutting too deep - too wide, and taking out too much material. I am going to stop it now.

#16

i’ll take a look at your project file and see what I can see

#17

I got the issues resolved on this one by choosing a much smaller bit - a 1 MM 20 degree bit for cutting ECB materials. Driving the bit down helped fix the missing carve.