Mocha Trace — CHIPPWALTERS.com

What it does

Image to vector. Vector to craft.

Mocha Trace converts raster art into clean, scalable SVG, then carries it the rest of the way — bleed, cut paths, exact-size printing — so full-color laser-cut pieces come out clean.

Two tracing engines

vTracer for full-color output with every parameter exposed, and Potrace for flat-color, per-color stacked layers. Tune for logos, line art, or photographs.

Bleed and cut path

Add an outer color bleed that extends artwork past the cut line, then generate a laser-ready SVG cut path. No white halo when registration drifts.

Bundled AI, no GPU required

Background removal and super-resolution ship inside the app and run locally — on any modern integrated GPU. No extra installs, no dedicated graphics card.

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Built for clean fabrication.

Designed around one showcase workflow: turning a digital design into two craft-ready files — a printable image with color bleed and a matching SVG cut path — so print and cut line up every time.

Generate cut paths from a trace or a transparent image's edge
Simplify and smooth paths to reduce node count before cutting
Print artwork and cut paths at exact physical mm/in dimensions

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Local, private, and yours.

Everything ships bundled — the Python environment, both tracers, and the AI models — so nothing leaves your computer. Purpose-built to run offline on modest hardware.

Runs on Windows 10/11 with as little as 4 GB RAM
Interactive mask editing with magic-wand and brush tools
MCP server lets Claude and other clients drive the tracing tools

Trace it. Cut it. Keep it local.

Join the makers using Mocha Trace to turn raster art into craft-ready vectors, entirely offline.

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