I’m not allowed to make puzzles for the family anymore. I made one for my daughter who was talking about “puzzle night” at school - it was a line drawing of the university library off a campus map. Nice easy little 5x6. And 200 pieces
I think “puzzle night” was to do something other than jigsaw puzzles though. But I don’t wanna know for sure. My only daughter after all.
Can any of you enlight me on settings and how to practically start from a digital image file to end up with a working physical puzzle?
I mean I know how to generate the pattern but:
I miss how to practically transfer the image to the media: what’s the easiest media to work with to end up with a good quality looking puzzle?
once you generate the svg with the generator and align it on the gf, which are the settings required not to sacrifice image vs playability of the tolerance of the pieces?
That is going to depend on what kind of puzzle you are making. If it’s a photo, then you need to attach it to a backing board like chipboard - which is most “traditional” puzzle-like. If it’s an engraving, you can print it directly onto the wood in the machine. The majority of puzzles I’ve made are plain wood or acrylic - no design, the puzzle is figuring out how the pieces interlock to complete the shape.
As to cut settings, that depends on the material you are using.
Thank you for sharing this, and the updates. I’ve used your generator many times-on glossy photos glued to chipboard, and with etched photos on 1/8" birch ply. Definitely the cleanest files of the handful of puzzle generators I’ve played with.
It did the same thing on my desktop. Eventually I took a screen shot and converted that to svg. It worked but it double cut the entire puzzle… Now i’ve got to figure out how to get rid of the double lines… Bit frustrating but its all part of learning.
Sorry, I don’t think I expressed my question sufficiently. After or during the saving of the file “jigsaw.svg.csv” does the file work if you just rename the file “jigsaw.svg”?
As for double cutting - that will always happen when you trace a raster image (which a screen shot will always be) unless your tracing software supports centerline trace.
Inkscape just recently added (and I think a Illustrator has it as well) a “centerline” trace option which will only create single lines, but as for removing doubles there’s a tutorial for that!