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pic2CAD

JPG or 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

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 about a minute. Generating uses 1 credit, and you get it back if the drawing fails.

03

Download PNG, SVG, DXF and DWG

Every format, every time; the DWG is under the + button in My drawings. 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, with millimetres as the unit. It opens straight in AutoCAD or Rhino, and just as easily in laser software like LightBurn.

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, with millimetres as the unit. 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. Select a subject mode cannot know a reliable height, so it arrives exactly 1 metre tall as a known reference you can scale in CAD.
R2018, a version every current CAD package and laser program reads without a plug-in or a downgrade step.

Related

Laser cuttingSignsPhoto to CAD blockJPG to DWGPNG to DXFBrowse the example gallery
Try it with your own picture