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Photo to DXF

Upload a picture and get back a DXF you can actually open and cut, not a raster trace that needs redrawing.

Try it with your own picture
Before and after: a wooden chair turned into a DXF-ready line drawing
Before and after: a wooden chair turned into a DXF-ready line drawing
Straight from a picture to a DXF you can open in CAD.
Before and after: a potted monstera turned into a DXF-ready line drawing
Before and after: a potted monstera turned into a DXF-ready line drawing
Any picture becomes a clean DXF outline.

How it works

01

Upload a picture

Any picture works: one you shoot yourself, a reference from a client, or a sketch you already have.

02

pic2CAD draws the line art

The picture becomes a clean line drawing in a few seconds, ready to check before you spend a credit on it.

03

Download PNG, SVG and DXF

All three formats, every time. Downloading is always free, however many times you need the file.

How pic2CAD helps

A picture is not a drawing your CAD software can use. To cut it, draft with it or drop it into a plan, someone still has to trace it into vector lines by hand, layer by layer.

pic2CAD traces the picture for you and writes a DXF with Outer, Inner and Fill on separate layers, drawn with splines instead of jagged polylines, dimensioned in millimetres. It opens straight in AutoCAD, Rhino, ArchiCAD or BricsCAD.

Ideal for

  • Laser and router operators who need closed, unambiguous cut paths
  • Architecture students who need a DXF block for a plan or a board, fast
  • Anyone drafting who does not want to trace a picture by hand
  • Sign and stencil makers cutting from a reference picture

Frequently asked questions

Outer, Inner and Fill on separate layers, drawn with splines rather than jagged polylines, dimensioned in millimetres. It is the same DXF you would get from /create, just linked from a page built for this search.
DXF is the interchange format every CAD package reads: AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, ArchiCAD, BricsCAD, and most laser and router software.
In Orthographic view you type the real height before generating and the DXF is written in millimetres at that exact size. Subject only cannot know a reliable height, so it arrives exactly 1 metre tall as a known reference you can scale in CAD.
Yes, every generation gives you PNG, SVG and DXF together, and downloading any of them is free.

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Try it with your own picture