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Convert a image into CAD file

lkirit2000 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:08:10 GMT

Hi Team,

I have a company Logo and I need to cut it out in sheet metal—the Logo in png or jpeg file.

Is this possible.

Thanks

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

YannickEnrico — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:29:48 GMT

I usually draw on an underlying image file by inserting it into a sketch, and constraining it, and then starting a separate sketch

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cidhelp — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:15:57 GMT

Hi @lkirit2000 ,

I used project Salvador to test converting image to sketch in Fusion. The result was very promising:
https://apps.autodesk.com/FUSION/en/Detail/Index?id=8558451727109537930&appLang=en&os=Win64

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

SharkDesign — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:36:45 GMT

If you have Adobe illustrator you can use 'live trace'

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

hollypapp65 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:54:58 GMT

AutoCAD can trace image.

You can send dwg/dxf and skip Inventor.

It'll be millions of short lines.

Might need to change setting in laser to cut.

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

lkirit2000 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:58:11 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your responses.

Do we need to trace in AutoCAD manually or is there any feature?

Are you able to explain in detail?

Thanks

Kiri

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

mluterman — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 20:23:13 GMT

Save or print your image as a .pdf file. Open AutoCAD and use the "PDFIMPORT" command. Done.

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

dan_inv09 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:06:15 GMT

At a place I used to work, corporate sent out a 10-15 page document about "proper logo use". We were not to use any "unofficial" logos and so we had these nasty little image files on all of our drawings.

When we needed to make a special nameplate for a prestige project I had to make a mockup by trying to trace the logo with an image in a sketch (nothing I tried could match the wacky curves quite right and the text font was "almost" a couple of standard ones). After about a month of several different people trying to contact the corporate graphics department and anyone we thought could put some pressure on them to get a proper .dwg or something we could use we ended up with no choice but to use my mockup as is (the truck was moving before the guy who put the nameplates on hit the ground).

Do not let these people get away with it! Tell the people who designed your logo that you need a file you can use!

Everyone needs to insist that that the graphics design people must include a .dwg when they make a logo until such time as they start to do it on their own.

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

johnsonshiue — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:39:34 GMT

Hi! Another workflow to consider is in Fusion Mesh Design environment. Start a new design in Fusion -> disable Capture History (change it to Direct Modeling) -> go to Mesh Design environment -> Create -> Extrude -> Texture Extrude.

Many thanks!

Re: Convert a image into CAD file

lkirit2000 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 01:21:20 GMT

Hi Mluterman,

Thanks for your prompt response. My logo on png file.

Thanks