I am just getting back into PCS and MTC after a two year break. I have forgotten so much. It upsets me so much that I have forgotten all of this since I had made so much progress. I know I asked the question in the past that I am about to ask now, but I have searched this forum for it and cannot find it. So here it goes again: I want to import into MTC a template for a popup card that is in the JPG format. The file is attached. I vaguely remember having to use pixel trace to bring in JPG files, but the I also remember something about having to convert to "vector files" (???) before importing to get the cut lines to show up. Anyway, I am not sure how to get the cut lines to be cut lines and the fold lines to be fold lines once I get it into MTC. I am basically just unsure of the whole process now.

Can someone give me suggestions? I am hoping that something will jog my memory. I do plan to go back and start from the beginning like I did before in my learning process, but this is driving me crazy. Thanks.
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Try that. I am going to get the link to the User Manual which will greatly refresh your mind
http://www.iloveknk.com/0um/KNKZing/KNKZingwithMTCUserManual.pdf
poorer quality images can be quite difficult
The other option is to manually trace which has been demonstrated during a webinar where andy manually traces a popup of a house I think ?
I tried to find it not luck yet
But i found this one starts at about 1.10
Paper Modellers I Revere Marc Hagan-Guirey ----- Yoshinobu Miyamoto ----- Peter Dahmen
Gallery ID #26944 ----- Link to My Cloud Have a Look your Welcome to Make Use of the Files
Paper Modellers I Revere Marc Hagan-Guirey ----- Yoshinobu Miyamoto ----- Peter Dahmen
Gallery ID #26944 ----- Link to My Cloud Have a Look your Welcome to Make Use of the Files
Sometime if the print is clear you can get away with tracing then performing some node surgery and choosing to keep only one side of the line
You can also try using the thin line function but I never had much success with that
Another method is use image software to fill the shapes with black color and then trace the filled image
often these patterns are poorly scanned from old books which are also poorly printed and or the image quality has been reduced for the internet so no method is very successful
I guess one good think is once you have the shape you can use to ensure the mechanics of the popup work
Paper Modellers I Revere Marc Hagan-Guirey ----- Yoshinobu Miyamoto ----- Peter Dahmen
Gallery ID #26944 ----- Link to My Cloud Have a Look your Welcome to Make Use of the Files
I have just cleaned some images up a bit enough to cut in MTC but I really miss having the shapes file. So I much prefer getting nice clean images that I can take to PCS and make my own file.
I guess not so much used on popups design as there are usually few closed shapes as the fold line are often a dashed line therefore flood fill would not just fill the internal of the shape. I idea is to get the line and fill colour the same so you have a solid color to trace the outline
Often if the image is poor quality using the idea as inspiration using some other good quality image to trace rather than copying the pattern directly is less time consuming
Paper Modellers I Revere Marc Hagan-Guirey ----- Yoshinobu Miyamoto ----- Peter Dahmen
Gallery ID #26944 ----- Link to My Cloud Have a Look your Welcome to Make Use of the Files