Trying to make DXF file into usable SU file that I can work with

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Hello,

I am driving myself crazy today. I am trying to make something for my son’s robotics team that did well this season.

I started by converting a PNG file to DXF with Convertio, then imported the DXF into SU-23pro, but I can’t get it to create faces that I can work with for the life of me without manually tracing the entire image. There has to be a better way, or something that I am missing.

I am have read through a few articles, tried a few extensions including the TIG image tracer which I don’t think installed correctly and doesn’t seem to be working like all the online videos show when I try to use it on the PNG file.

Anyway, I would really appreciate some help and guidance as to what I am missing and doing wrong.

The file is attached both the PNG file I am working with as well as the DXF that convertio turned it into.

Team-crest-template-7.dxf (232.9 KB)

Team-crest-template-7
Team-crest-template-72000×1428 145 KB

This has to be something simple that I am just missing…

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Something like this? You are very close, just trace any existing edge to heal the surfaces.
Flat Horse.skp (915.8 KB)

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This is absolutely perfect!

Thank you very much!!

Now comes the question that reminds me I still have a lot to learn with SketchUp even though I have been using it very a very long time.

Did you only need to trace one edge to make the picture work, or the entire shape? I started tracing a small area near the top and it was taking forever so I started looking for a “better” or at least faster way than going over the entire image tracing all the short little segments.

I tried looking for broken segments while zoomed in a bunch but ran out of time and patience doing that as well.

Thanks again for your help, I am sure I will want to do things like this more often now that I am playing with a 3D printer more so I’ll keep working on figuring out how to do it “easily”.