Converting files to .svg for use with Shaper Origin

what's up y'all I want to show you today how I use Inkscape to create SVG files for shape or origin so I have this bear that I found online and first of all if you notice this is just a PNG regular file if you go up here to view display mode and go to outline there is no outline so this is not currently a cuttable file in the shaper so the way that we've changed this and make it a file that you can use with your shaper is by selecting the image whatever the image is make sure you select the whole thing using this arrow once you've selected the image you're gonna go to path trace bitmap and when you're in here there's several different ways you can do this I usually use brightness cutoff I don't change the settings and once you hit update it'll give you a preview of what that will look like once the trace is done but you can also do edge detection and you can hit this Update button to see what that would look like you can use any of the functions here and just hit update and it'll show you what that would look like but like I said I usually use brightness cutoff and hit OK and then it will do the trace for you and once you exit out of that you can see there's now two images you've got your original and the one that was just traced now if you go back to view and the display mode and go back to outline you'll now see that you've got two images and you've got your new one and then your old one I usually just delete the old one and if you pull the new image back down and zoom in on this you'll be able to see you've got a nice consistent line around the outside of this file and this line is now cuttable you can engrave you can use it however you'd like to use it once you get it imported into your shaper so that is how I take files that I find on the internet or that you get from people that maybe jpg or PNG or whatever files you find and you can easily use Inkscape to convert them into a file that's usable with your shaper so now I save it and just make sure you change that file from whatever it was named earlier and save it as an SVG file and I usually just leave it in the Inkscape SVG mode and save it and now you've got this file that you can use with your shaper I hope that was helpful thanks for watching [Music] you

Channel: Cubby's Woodworks

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Keywords: Shaper Origin, Inkscape, Converting files, Shaper, Origin, PNG, SVG, JPEG, Converting, wood, woodworking, design, makers gonna make, makers movement, meet the maker

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Length: 2min 58sec (178 seconds)

Published: Sat May 09 2020