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Turn a picture into the line art your digitizer would otherwise sketch by hand

pic2CAD doesn't export DST or PES, but it gives you the clean vector base an embroidery digitizer starts from.

Try it with your own picture
Before and after: a corgi puppy turned into an embroidery-ready line outline
Before and after: a corgi puppy turned into an embroidery-ready line outline
A puppy picture, simplified into a stitch-ready outline.
Before and after: a potted plant turned into an embroidery-ready line outline
Before and after: a potted plant turned into an embroidery-ready line outline
A potted plant picture, ready as an embroidery 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

An embroidery digitizer needs clean vector artwork to start from, and sketching that base by hand from a reference picture takes time before the actual digitizing even begins. A blurry picture or a rough sketch usually isn't enough.

pic2CAD turns a picture into a clean SVG line drawing your digitizer can trace into stitches. The same file doubles as a line-color separation for screen printing or a cut file for heat-transfer vinyl, if that's where the design ends up instead.

Ideal for

  • Small print shops turning a customer's picture into a stitch-ready design
  • Digitizers who want a clean vector base instead of sketching one by hand
  • One-off or low-volume embroidery, where a full digitizing service isn't worth it yet
  • Designs that also need a screen-print or heat-transfer version from the same artwork

Frequently asked questions

No. pic2CAD exports PNG, SVG and DXF line art, not stitch files. It gives your digitizer the clean vector artwork to work from, not the finished embroidery file.
The SVG: it opens as editable vector paths in the digitizing software most shops already use.
Yes. The same SVG doubles as a line-color separation for screen printing or a cut file for heat-transfer vinyl.
Yes. Generating the drawing spends a credit; downloading the PNG, SVG and DXF afterwards is always free, as many times as you need.