The tool I have at my disposal is GIMP, Inkscape and Fusion 360 on a PC.Īny help and guidance would be much appreciated. I am really outside of my comfort zone here. but then I tried to 'pick' the turquoise and the red to convert them to alpha, but nothing seemed to happen, not sure why. In gimp, I also tried the Color to Alpha, it worked for the white background. Then I can simply take that new black and white image and have the outline converted to a SVG and then import this in Fusion 360 to extrude it in my model. What Rafael describes is EXACTLY what I want at the end: Some black (only for the outline, and ideally SOLID black lines whereas the original may not be so cut (I think that's what anti-aliasing is for?) and some white. The included screenshots/jpg on that page aren't valid anymore.Īlso, how do you 'Make a new file with only the color you need.'? The following question is very similar to mine, but answer #1 doesn't work because it simply transforms the image to greyscale (to do so, wouldn't it be simpler to simply do Image -> Mode -> Greyscale?).Īnswer #2 seems promising, but I am stuck at step #3, not knowing how/what to do with the levels. There are some pretty nice and efficient online conversion tools, but most have limitations in their free versions (as well as other problems). My understanding of the steps to achieve this is:ġ- Remove all colors and coloring inside objects (only keep the BLACK outline)Ģ- Use a tool such as Inkscape -> Trace bitmap to convert the remaining outline to SVG/DXF (or another tool)

I do not have access to the Photoshop source files. The initial image was created in Photoshop and then converted to a PDF. DFX) to eventually have only the outline of the drawing be 3D printed in plastic (through a design in Autodesk Fusion 360). I currently have a color drawing/sketch that I want to convert to a vector file (.SVG or.

UPDATE: I have added a direct link to the PDF file, as well as a sample image below to give an overview of the goal.

Convert image to line drawing inkscape