![]() ![]() Two neices are golfers, one is a swimmer and the other loves Sea Horses. The entire family are Cubs fans so I made one of those for everybody. I’m not a graphic artist so I went out to Google Image Search to find some vector/svg images. In the search options you can select to only show images “Labeled for reuse with modification.” Most of the art I chose was under this usage right and came from wikipedia. With the SVG files in hand, I first pulled them into Inkscape and cleaned them up as best I could, removing any excess lines and filled areas. Essentially, I tried to make them simple line drawings and shrunk them down to size (about 15mm). Diptrace can only import DXF art files and I exported them from Inkscape to DXF format but Diptrace would not import them. There’s different versions of the DXF format so I ended up pulling the Inkscape DXF (export options: No ROBO Master, No LWPOLYLINE, Base unit mm) into LibreCAD and exporting again to DXF R12. In the Diptrace pattern editor, the LibreCAD DXF R12 files were imported successfully. Importing art into Diptrace proved to be tedious work. Any imported curved lines were actually comprised of many small lines. I was not able to import any shape as filled even though the option exists in Diptrace. Some of the lines imported were somewhat distored and some areas needed to be filled so I had to recreate them with the tools in Diptrace. For example, in the Cubs logo I recreated the outer circle in Diptrace then removed all the imported lines. The large “C” was redrawn as an arc but the ends of an arc are curved so I had to create a filled box polygon to get square ends on the “C”. Also notice the multiple filled shapes used for the letter “B” in the layers section on the right (layers 2-5). ![]() The Sea Horse was by far the most difficult. The entire shape of it had to be redrawn as a filled polygon on the top copper layer. I traced the imported shape and removed it when finished. Then I cloned that layer and converted it to top mask so that the Sea Horse would show as gold/copper. To get the eye to show I had to add/adjust points of the top mask layer to make a circle and then place a filled circle on it (top silk). Finally, I had to redraw the outline again as silk to get the white outline. The Star Wars logo was pretty straight forward and worked out good. I imported it as top copper and then duplicated it for top mask so that it appears gold. The swimming symbol had to be redrawn as top silk, but it was a simple shape and didn’t take long.
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