so I have another picture that is very simple that I am trying to do the same thing with. I have attached ilnks to the origional picture, the picture after I filled it with the paintcan tool and saved it ass an svg. it looks like crap, if theres a way to hit the "cleanup" buton on the pict...

Thanks! im certainly happy with it. I use Fusion 360 for CAD\CAM and Inkscape to create the .svg file. Once I turned the jepg or whatever picture type, this pattern for example, to an svg, I import the svg, setup the tool paths in the CAM and toss it into the machine, I'm running a tormach 1100 ccn ...

Here's a finished pic, I'm very happy with how it came out, if I could do it myself I'd be pretty proud of myself .

Here's a quick pic, it's on the machine right now. I'll post fill pics when its done, it's looking great. Ugh, ill host it, pic is too big.

Heres the file I recievedd back, done by someone who knows what they're doing.. haha

I gave up and had a guy from fiver make me an svg copy of the pattern and the engraving is coming out great now. It was the way the paint bucket tool fills the lines, I dunno, its what I'm trying to learn myself, heres a copy of the file I used to do the engraving, (that I recieved from the guy on f...

It wouldnt let me upload the pic , says its too big so I hosted it, we'll see if thsi worked,

The problem I am trying to fix is that all the lines are very rough, I am trying to smooth them out.

here's the origional pattern pic

So I'm trying to engrave a pattern that I took from a jpeg, I filled the pattern with the paint bucket and then turned that vector (svg) into a tooolpath and engraved it in a block of aluminum. I've attached pictures of the pattern in the block, on the cnc machine, as well as the origional pattern a...