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Adding bitmap to trace on chromebook

wdaviesV44AQ — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 04:13:46 GMT

I've watched a few tutorials on adding a bitmap image to trace, but when I go to Insert>canvas, a window pops up and there are no files to chose from. I must be missing something? Again this on a Chromebook. When I try it on my mac, in the lower left of the window that pops up, there is a button to "Insert from my computer." This is not present on the chromebook. I'm trying to get this going for my students, who all have Chromebooks.

Thanks!

Re: Adding bitmap to trace on chromebook

sanjana.shankar.goli — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 06:12:49 GMT

Hi @wdaviesV44AQ ,

Thank you for reporting this. Apologies for the inconvenience. I am able to replicate this behavior on my end as well. I will investigate this and let you know. At the moment, *.png and *.jpg files can still be inserted so please try and use these formats for now.

Re: Adding bitmap to trace on chromebook

HughesTooling — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:47:36 GMT

@wdaviesV44AQ wrote:

I've watched a few tutorials on adding a bitmap image to trace, but when I go to Insert>canvas, a window pops up and there are no files to chose from. I must be missing something? Again this on a Chromebook. When I try it on my mac, in the lower left of the window that pops up, there is a button to "Insert from my computer." This is not present on the chromebook. I'm trying to get this going for my students, who all have Chromebooks.

Thanks!

The Chromebook browser version runs on a remote desktop and has no access to you local drives at all so you have to load canvases from your hub. Same for SVGs. See the bottom of this page for more info.

Mark

Re: Adding bitmap to trace on chromebook

wdaviesV44AQ — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:28:21 GMT

Thanks for the replies. Mark - totally not knowing what I'm doing here but I followed your instructions and I was able to import a .JPG to trace. The goal here is to be able to get this into a .DXF to send to laser engraver. Hopefully I'm on the right track...?

Re: Adding bitmap to trace on chromebook

HughesTooling — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:35:20 GMT

For DXF it could be a bit tricky! What's in the design? One way is create a component, then create a sketch in the component and project into the sketch what you need. Next use Save Copy As to export the component to your project on your hub, from there download as a DXF.

Mark