Trace Tool?

[3eighty]

This seems like an obvious question and answer but..What tool do you use to trace?

[remus]

As in tracing pictures? Just the usual drawing tools.

[DavidBoulder]

If you have Adobe Illustrator it has some a great (live trace tool) to vectorize raster images. You could start your workflow there and dump it to dwg file to SketchUp.

[Jean Lemire]

Hi folks.

One tool that is underused while tracing pictures is the Arc Tool. With its ability to make each new arc tangent with the previously drawn one, it makes for very nice and continuous curves. Of course you can edit the number of segments afterward to avoid generating too many geometries.

Just ideas.

[plot-paris]

you are ablolutely right, Jean. one of the greatest inference functions in SketchUp.

I would be highly useful to have a ruby that automatically adjusts all the arc's individual segment counts to roughly match an overall spacing (wink wink, nudge nudge )

[3eighty]

I thank you all for taking the time to answer..I knew asking a question could lead to different ways..

[Panga]

Just for information, Inkscape integrates a nice tool to vectorize bitmaps. Based on Protrace, and better than many other softs, and it is...free !!

[bubbalove]

I like to use the arc, freehand, and line commands for tracing things! This works real well when you need to do a company logo but you don't the text they used to create it!