How to convert image into part of a sketch?

mark_tsai

I'm planning on laser cutting a case as a birthday gift for my friend. However, I have problem converting an image into part of a sketch. Is there some more faster method to do it aside from drawing the entire image again with tools from the toolbar? 

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/446fe15f3c2cd34a6b9820a7/w/2e3b571e01cbf1eac9f16caf/e/2e1985247740d68cc5daac8c 
this is the link of the document I'm working on

Thanks in advance. 

SethF

I think Inkscape has the ability to automatically trace bitmaps. If you're trying to do it within onshape, you're going to have to trace it by hand. For which, I would still recommend using Inkscape or the like first, then bringing in the vector drawing to use in a sketch. Only because I like graphic design software for tracing. 

Here's a related discussion.

david_urufu

I know this is an old thread, but i was in the same situation and trying to make a sketch just using splines, dots, rectangles, lines etc. is very, very unacurate and tedious way how to do this. Use some online picture-to-dxf converter (like https://convertio.co/jpg-dxf/) and You're done in a few seconds - the quality of converted file depends on the quality of the picture. Then import the .dxf file into the sketch.