Fusion 360 - Better Tracing a Logo or Emblem - Ask LarsLive

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[@cornertankcorner]

How about tracing only half and then mirror the result to make it symmetrical? If the body is symmetrical, of course.

[@_lumpy8859]

Always great Lars! I would recommend using left right symmetry

[@joelstolarski2244]

Thank you for the video. The control point spline gives more control over line placement. Maybe a new addition since this video was made.

[@kevinanderson7878]

Hi Lars, I've recently come across your tutorials, and have found them very useful. I've had a go at tracing a logo this way, and found it much easier.
I'm having a problem though, I want to be able to scale the sketch down, to engrave in a smaller part. However when I attempt it, I get an issue of anchor points for the curves not all moving in unison. It's there a way around this, am I missing a trick? Thanks.

[@thomasheisler]

Inkscape can change a picture into svg, and there are lots of tutorials also

[@thomasheisler]

I even took a screen shot of something I was was on in fusion then used it in in inkscape and came up with with an svg for another purpose

[@sim-racing2277]

Bitmap tracing in Inkscape is the fastest way by far. That image would take seconds to convert to a SVG and use Tinkercad to extrude and mod to print in another minute.

[@BrianLeeWho]

Yeah, definitely don't want to do that in Fusion. Use Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape (Freeware). Both have good raster to vector tracing abilities. Although for the Mazda logo Lars was working on, I would have first taken it into Photoshop to reduce it to a black and white image--it's pretty easy to do. And then taken it into Illustrator or Inkscape.

[@alejandroperez5368]

I don't think you need to do that, there is some appropiate setting on Image Trace to take care of multi-color images.

[@BrianLeeWho]

I'm just throwing out a suggestions of what I would have done. Sure, you can do it your way. But from my experience, you'll end up with a lot of imperfections in the trace that will have to be cleaned up afterwards and could have been easily avoided if run through Photoshop first.

[@alejandroperez5368]

@@BrianLeeWho thanks for the suggestion, but anyway, can't you convert it to a black and white image on illustrator ?

[@brianboni4876]

Same here. Image editor first to clean up, increase contrast, adjust perspective/remove parallax, etc. then the vector program and save as SVG.

[@BrianLeeWho]

@@brianboni4876 There you go. Perfectly summed up in as few a words as possible.

[@Lukeypukey85]

Hey. Really cool tip and really helpful. Thanks 😊👍🏻

[@pofrani]

What about tracing an image that's not shot directly in front? Is there a way of tracing that image and then adjusting the traced image to be head on afterwards?

[@BIGDADDY012341]

Awesome !!! thank you for this video !!

[@feldmanjared]

Thanks Lars!

[@mohamedasik8677]

Hi, Lars! I'm new to fusion 360, I'm learning a lot from your tutorials. Thanks. I have a Question. " I feel in the fusion 360, spline handle is too hard to compare with photoshop or illustrator because some time I move one handle independently using Shift or Alt Keys. But I fusion 360 I can't find any option like that. Any alternate solution for this issue. Please let me know. " Thanks.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you for watching. Take a look at this article:
help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-C405FBF7-25AC-42B5-A3E0-7614EBF2E4DC

[@kraken3d718]

Inkscape would be great for making the SVG for free.

[@alejandroperez5368]

If you are going to have to vectorize many logos, it'd be best to use Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Vector Magic or other tools other than manually tracing it on Fusion360

[@reignleonardo1217]

i guess im randomly asking but does anybody know of a trick to get back into an instagram account??
I stupidly lost my password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me.

[@reignleonardo1217]

@Amir Drake Thanks for your reply. I got to the site on google and im in the hacking process now.
Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@reignleonardo1217]

@Amir Drake it worked and I now got access to my account again. Im so happy:D
Thanks so much, you saved my account :D

[@amirdrake8579]

@Reign Leonardo glad I could help xD

[@masood6086]

Thanks

[@Procuste34iOSh]

Thank you ! Very useful and clear

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome. Thank you for watching!

[@droneforfun5384]

Thanks from Sweden 😊

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you for watching!!

[@aernan]

Why fixup at the end? What does it do?

[@sergeybob3224]

Very many Thanks you , Lars !!!

[@RCVOODOO]

God info👍

[@danl.4743]

"Good"?

[@snake5394]

I cant hold it anymore... Please tell me what is that box thing on the shelf over your right shoulder!

[@alejandroperez5368]

Some kind of programmable CNC controller

[@snake5394]

I see, thanks.

[@chrisabraham8793]

Hi Lars still learning fusion 360. I want to create 3d models by importing and scale drawings which show the front, back, top, sides and bottom of say a tank or car etc and attach them with the canvas tool, then join the sides back and front top to make 3d model and to scale it to sizes so it can be cut to make models. I followed this guy but i was wondering if you could explain it better th-cam.com/video/8CS-L3f3MmY/w-d-xo.html or do you have a link to one of your videos that is similar an explains better?.