Turn any outline into a sketch

Upload a closed SVG, trace a picture or paint a shape yourself. The generator fills it with line patterns like the sketch fills of a design program, keeps a clean border to the edge and exports a file ready to engrave with a laser or to print in colour.

Features

• Templates:Eight finished designs to start from, like a sketched heart, a spiral chip, a sun coaster or a three-ink printed heart. One click sets shape, material and layers.
• 21+ patterns:lines, crosshatch, triangles, herringbone, waves, zigzag, honeycomb, bricks, scales, truchet, circles, dots, stipple, crosses, contour, rings, spiral, rays, flow, sketch, and your own motif from an SVG, repeated as a pattern.
• Fine-tuning:spacing, angle, size, wobble and variation per pattern; move the centre of rings, spirals and rays anywhere, even outside the shape.
• Layers: stack up to six patterns. On a photo each layer fills its own brightness range, so dark parts get denser hatching. One click sets up three-layer shading.
• Draw it yourself: brush, fill, eraser and cut-out on a drawing board, with your own picture shown faintly underneath to trace by hand. Each layer gets its own drawing and pattern, for example the head in crosshatch and the body in waves.
• Image trace:turn a dark motif on a light background into an outline, with threshold, smoothing and speck removal.
• Line style:hand-drawn wobble, dashed lines and frame lines that follow the outline.
• Print in colour: for UV or ink printing, each layer gets its own colour and the lines a real width. They are exported as filled shapes, ready for the printer.

How to use

1. Pick a template, or upload an SVG, choose an image or draw a shape.
2. Pick a pattern and adjust it. Add layers for more depth.
3. Choose laser engraving or print, set the finished width in millimetres and whether the outline is cut, engraved or left off.
4. Export, or open it straight in xTool Studio.

Good to know

• Exported 1:1 in millimetres: the red outline is cut, the blue pattern lines are engraved.
• In print mode the lines are filled shapes in the layer colours, and the outline is still cut by laser.
• Every layer is its own group in the file, so each can get its own power and speed.
• Use "None" as outline to engrave a blank you already have, like a coaster or a coin.
• Text in an uploaded SVG is skipped. Convert it to paths first.
• If the result warns that lines are too close, increase the spacing: they would run into each other.