Woodcraft Vector & CAM Studio
From a sketch to a cut panel, without leaving the grain
Magic Carve traces raster artwork into clean, closed vector contours, bridges the floating pieces so your fretwork survives the cut, and writes the G-code your machine already speaks.
No install. Works in the browser.
Built for marquetry, fretwork, relief carving and laser inlay.
Try the tracer
A built-in sample, traced in your browser. No account needed.
Trace an image to see contours here.
Otsu (automatic)
- Contours
- 0
- Nodes
- 0
- Islands
- 0
- Cut length
- 0 mm
Done
Everything between the drawing and the dust
A complete pipeline, tuned for people who cut wood.
Honest thresholding
Otsu, adaptive Gaussian or a cutoff you drive by hand. Invert, despeckle, and watch the preview update as you move the slider.
Contours that close
Closed polyline extraction with Douglas–Peucker simplification, so a traced curve stays a curve instead of ten thousand points.
Bridges that hold
The island detector finds every floating loop in your fretwork and places tabs, so nothing drops out of the panel mid-cut.
Toolpaths you can watch
Colour-coded rapid moves and cutting passes, played back on the canvas before a single chip flies.
Exports your machine reads
R12-compliant DXF on layered entities, LightBurn-ready SVG, and multi-pass G-code with your bit, RPM, feedrate and safe Z.
Six themes, six languages
Including full right-to-left support, because a lot of the world's finest fretwork is drawn in Arabic.
Four steps, one panel
The Studio walks the same path every time.
Upload
Drop in a photo, scan or drawing. PNG, JPEG or WebP.
Trace
Pick a threshold, clean the specks, let the contours settle.
Set up the cut
Choose the machine, the bit, the feeds and the depth per pass.
Export
Take the DXF, SVG or G-code straight to the shop.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when the exports need to be clean.
Free
For trying it out
Free
- Up to 9 images a month
- Every thresholding method
- Watermarked exports
- No saved library
Most popular
Pro
For the working shop
US$2/month
- Up to 99 images a month
- Private library only you can see
- Clean, unwatermarked DXF, SVG & G-code
- Island bridge generator
- Toolpath simulation
- Multi-pass Z step-down
Enterprise
For production floors
US$5/month
- Unlimited images
- Private library only you can see
- Clean, unwatermarked DXF, SVG & G-code
- Custom CNC post-processors
- Team seats
- Priority support
From the workshop
The tab generator alone saved me a sheet of birch ply a week. Before Magic Carve I was drawing bridges by hand in the CAD file.
I scan my grandfather's pattern books and cut them on a 1300×2500 router. The DXF layers come in clean, every time.
The G-code preview caught a plunge I'd have found the hard way. That's a £90 bit it paid for on day one.
Your next panel is one upload away
Open the Studio, drop in a drawing, and see the contours land.
Start carving