True grayscale on machines that only follow lines.
DXF Studio rebuilds a photograph as thousands of individually placed LINE elements, so plasma, waterjet, wire EDM, DXF-driven routers and drag engravers can produce continuous tone. Nothing to install, and you see the result before you pay.
Auto-trace in Illustrator or CorelDRAW posterises a photograph into a few grey levels and outlines each region. A vector-only machine follows those outlines but cannot fill them, so you get stepped contour bands, not shading. DXF Studio builds the dot and line screen itself, as individual LINE entities, so density carries the tone.
$29 a job for photo to tonal DXF · repair, cleanup and hatch from $3.95 · preview always free
Photograph
Tonal DXFImages → vector DXF
True grayscale photo engraving — real tonal depth rebuilt as a vector halftone, not a flat black-and-white trace — plus outline and threshold modes for logos and line art. Built for vector-only machines — plasma, waterjet, DXF-driven routers, drag and rotary engravers — and for galvo setups where the built-in bitmap mode gives a poor result on your material.
DXF file → readiness score
Drop any DXF to get an instant 0–100 readiness score and a plain-English list of every problem, before you spend a token anywhere.
Problem DXF → clean geometry
Simplify DXF files with splines, duplicates, gaps, or unsupported geometry, and reduce unnecessary travel moves.
Outline → hatch-filled shape
Create hatch, cross-hatch, spiral, or serpentine fill patterns inside closed shapes for laser marking, engraving, and CNC.
