Crowdsourcing Mornings: Shaper Trace: Go from Sketch To Vector In Seconds

By Nathan Young on July 12, 2023

Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shaper/shaper-trace-go-from-sketch-to-vector-in-seconds?banner=invent-newsletter01&lid=bn2b2gtmhy9x&ref=ksr_email_mktg_pwl_2023-07-07&utm_source=pocket_saves

Introducing Shaper Trace, a drawing toolkit that allows you to turn any sketch or drawing into a vector graphic by simply taking a picture. Place the Trace Frame over your sketch and convert it into a Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) with the Trace App, ready for fabrication using the tool of your choice, from laser cutters and vinyl cutters to CNC machines and more.

Trace works in three steps:

Place the Trace Frame over your drawing
Capture using the Trace App on your phone
Export the SVG for use with your favorite fabrication tool or graphic design program

There are many tools on the market that can Trace an image – some better than others, but Trace not only captures the outline of your drawing in seconds, but also finds the centerline of your sketch, providing a clean line that’s optimized for working with laser cutters, vinyl cutters, CNC machines and more.

Unlike a traditional scanning process, Trace uses the camera on your mobile device, allowing you to capture your drawing at any angle without the need to be directly over the image. As long as the Frame is in view, Trace will automatically flatten the image, removing perspective distortion, as well as the distortion introduced by the lens on your phone’s camera. This is what makes Trace so accurate, and gives it the ability to preserve the exact scale of your drawing. Plus, it all happens in a matter of seconds.

As of July 12th, this project has raised $911,000 of their $10,000 goal. This project has 10 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $99, you will get one Trace kit. For a pledge of $130, you will get two Trace kits. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shaper/shaper-trace-go-from-sketch-to-vector-in-seconds?

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