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Trace over a sketch in the StencilCut laser editor

Upload a sketch, turn it into a faded tracing guide, draw scrolls over it with the Spiral tool, make the lines solid and export without the guide.

0:35 Captions on the player Example results from demo files

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0:02Upload a photo of your sketch to the laser editor.

0:06Press Trace over it. The sketch fades into a locked guide that is never exported.

0:12Pick the Spiral tool and drag from the centre of a scroll out to its end.

0:17Press Make solid to turn the line into material. Hold Alt to wind the next scroll the other way.

0:23Hide the guide to see only what the laser will cut.

0:26Then export an SVG or DXF at true size. The guide stays out of the file.

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