I need a kick ass raster to vector program

[b*saint]

TraceArt and the like suck. At this point I am willing to pay for a good raster to vector image converter. Any suggestions?

[jasonsnoddy]

no but i love your sig

[Wh33lhop]

no but i love your sig

You should see the gif where they throw a cow in one.

[george graves]

I've never see one that really works well. What you using it for?

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

Vector Magic

[elemenohpee]

Illustrator-> color halftone-> live trace. Done.

[Massive Lee]

Good old Adobe Streamline or any similar plug-in as found in Adobe Illustrator (LiveTrace). Both are available for Mac or IBM-compatible.

[Fusion]

Illustrator
File - Place image (chose file) - up top choose Live Trace - pick from like 10 presets or make your own.
Works damn good.

[Imagine_M]

Flexisign

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_shkeAk7Qk

Flexi is free on thepiratebay.com for WIN XP only though

[sector6]

CorelDRAW / CorelPOWERTRACE = done. AND far cheaper than the rest, last I checked.

[b*saint]

I've never see one that really works well. What you using it for?

Converting images into ones I can import to Acad thus turn into gcode.

I will check out coreldraw and the others first. I know illustrator is balls expensive.

[george graves]

There are programs that will take images right to g-code - tricky depending what you are milling. I think you can also import a raster graphic into auto cad and draw on top of it. Sort of like the way the old digitizer tablets use to do. What you milling?

Check out www.cnczone.com/ - tons of info there. I recently built my own 3-axis cnc for some gauge work, but haven't learned the software yet.

[b*saint]

Im not milling anything, Im blanking with a 2d co2 laser system. Its going to be a custom biz card holder as a gift. 14 gage stainless.

So I am drawing the logo and a name free hand graffiti style. Then I need to scan it and save as raster. Then convert to vector. But I dont want sharp angles like TraceArt gives me.

[george graves]

Doens't matter what you're doing - that's all in the software.

http://www.cnczone.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&id=2

[b*saint]

You just asked tho what I was milling. So I was explaining.

But yea I know its in the post processor. Ive been running and servicing these for over 2 years now.