Trace is a plugin that outputs a bitmap to vector within Rhino. Vectorize | Food4Rhino
This plugin is currently only available for Rhino 6. This plugin does not work in the newest Beta for Rhino 7.
I had worked with the developer in the past on improvements, but sadly the developer has passed in the last year. I do not have the source code for the plugin and I am not a programmer.
I was wondering if someone in the rhino community would be willing to develop a plugin that does raster to vector conversions based on the open-source Potrace with CsProtrace code? I know there are some solutions out there like RhinoNest that has that vector conversion built into it, but that program is overkill for the simple needs of just conversion.
This has become such viable tool for us and many others, I would hate to see it disappear with the forthcoming Rhino 7. Would anyone be willing develop such a plugin that works with both PC and Mac Rhino?
Ah I didnât realize you were on Mac. The command doesnât exist on that platform because it doesnât need to exist (or at least it shouldnât need to exist).
Is it just possible that the plugin is just coded to do a version check before loading?
If this is the case, that is unfortunate due to the circumstances.
Im sure the plugin would have ran just fine without that bit of code.
That message is coming from the plug-in itself so it is checking the version of Rhino and deciding not to run. Not much we can do if the project is closed source and the developer passed away.
I believe Aviary uses potrace, but that may be a Windows only project. @DavidMans would know if a Mac version exists.
Thanks for the suggestion, But I looking for something that is multi-platform.
Trace was platform agnostic.
While the Rooster plugin does work on my PC.
Rooster does not work on the the Macs I support.
Thanks Dale, it works very well, it is fast.
A group option could be useful because it generates lots of curves, they could be hard to select on top of others curves.