Jumbo Tracer CNC
Digitizing System

• Trace object or drawing and create DXF graphics file
• Fast and easy
• Very accurate with .01" standard, 0.005" accuracy available
• Complete tracing system consisting of digitizing board, pen stylus and Logic Trace software for creating DXF files.
• Available size boards include 44x60", 36x48", 24x36", 20x24", 12x18" and 12x12"
• Metric sizes 110x150cm, 90x120cm, 60x90cm, 50x60cm, 30x45cm and 30x30cm
• Multiple boards can be connected for tracing very large patterns: 5x8', 5x12', 5x16', 8x11' and bigger. Metric sizes are 1.5x2.5m, 1.5x3.6, 1.5x4.8m, 2.4x3.3m

• Trace point to point or continuously
• Generate DXF files with Arcs and Lines or Polylines
• Generate Gcode files
• Convert DXF files to other formats
• Trace object on digitizer using pen stylus or cursor
• Useful in hundreds of different CNC and Cutting machines including routers, waterjets, plasma, metalworking, manufacturing, wood-working, plastics, furniture, upholstery, garments, machining
• Useful in hundreds of different industries metalworking, manufacturing, wood-working, plastics, furniture, upholstery, garments, machining, sign-making, boat manufacturing

• Trace lines, arcs, curves, points, circles
• Place object directly on digitizer or trace from template on digitizer
• Pen can register almost an inch above surface of board, trace through paper, cardboard, plastic, mylar
• Create accurate graphics files of objects in minutes
• Normal scaling is 1:1 but different scaling and sizes possible
• English and metric units
• Arcs created by digitizing endpoints and any middle point
• Complex curves can be created using polylines or digitizing multiple points and arcs automatically created

How the Tracing Boards Works

✷ A Digitizing Board is an electrical-magnetic board and pointer (pen or cursor) that can send highly accurate XY points to a computer.

✷ The board is about an inch thick, contains an electrical grid underneath with a hard Formica surface.

✷ The digitizer's pen or cursor (puck-like device with magnifying glass) creates a magnetic field which is "sensed".

✷ Press the tip of the pen or push a button on the cursor and a highly accurate XY point, representing this location, is sent to the computer through a USB connection.

✷ The Logic Trace software then turns those points or stream of points into a DXF file.

✷ The pen stylus does not need to be touching the board, the board can sense the tip of the pen almost an inch above the surface without losing accuracy. Digitize through paper, plastic, cardboard, glass.

Who Needs The Jumbo Tracer

✷ Any and all industries that need to easily trace a large 2D pattern and save it as a vector file for loading into any CNC, CAD or drawing software

Tracing Methods

• ✷ Tracing - Freehand drawing, continuously trace an edge of a part or pattern. For example continuously trace a heart.

 

• ✷ Lines and Arcs - digitize points and have the points connected with lines or arcs. For example to digitize the outline of an ice cream lines are defined by 2 points and arcs by 3 points.

 

• ✷ Combination - Toggle between freehand tracing and points connected with lines and arcs

 

• ✷ Point to Point - Trace an outline by digitizing points and have the points connected with straight lines

 

• ✷ Circles - Digitize any three points on a circle and the software uses those three points to calculate and display the circle

 

• ✷ Curve Fitting - Digitize a series of points along a smooth curve and the software fits a Bezier curve-fit line through all the points