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svg2scad
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Published on August 7, 2012
Description
Converting Inkscape .svg files (paths only) into .scad files, useable for further processing using OpenSCAD.org
Version: 0.005
Version: 0.005
Instructions
This is an early release of svg2scad command-line tool (perl script) and works with
- Linux,
- Windows (with Cygwin.com installed) and
- MacOS-X.
Note: This is NOT a graphical user-interface program, but a command-line tool - but it's still very useful. If you want to export from Inkscape direct, see thingiverse.com/thing:25036
Unpack package after download:
% tar xzf svg2scad-0.005.tar.gz
and read README (a few perl modules to be installed, quite easy)
Limitations:
- only Inkscape .svg files supported (for now)
- convert all forms in Inkscape to paths (even circles)
- SVG text converted to paths do not work well as .scad-files / OpenSCAD has some polygon restrictions (e.g. "T" renders, where as "O" does not, see sample image)
Features:
You can edit 2D path(s) with Inkscape in all tiny details and export it as polygon(s) as .scad and process it (linear_extrude, rotate_extrude etc) with OpenSCAD to do incredible forms.
I will release new versions at thingiverse.com/thing:28108 direct, and on github.com/Spiritdude/SVG2SCAD
History:
-2012/08/12: 0.005: -openrot switch, to make first/last coord x-pos the same (rotate_extrude() requires that), see updated README
-2012/08/03: 0.003: discovering inconsistancy in path definition, hacking myself to support it
-2012/08/02: 0.002: extended with some functionality
-2012/08/01: 0.001: first rudimentary version
Q: I'm rather new to OpenSCAD, so I ask for some feedback from experienced OpenSCAD users how to convert multiple paths to a single .scad file, any suggestions? Right now multiple paths are "union() { }" enclosed as polygons, so they can't be individually referenced anymore.
- Linux,
- Windows (with Cygwin.com installed) and
- MacOS-X.
Note: This is NOT a graphical user-interface program, but a command-line tool - but it's still very useful. If you want to export from Inkscape direct, see thingiverse.com/thing:25036
Unpack package after download:
% tar xzf svg2scad-0.005.tar.gz
and read README (a few perl modules to be installed, quite easy)
Limitations:
- only Inkscape .svg files supported (for now)
- convert all forms in Inkscape to paths (even circles)
- SVG text converted to paths do not work well as .scad-files / OpenSCAD has some polygon restrictions (e.g. "T" renders, where as "O" does not, see sample image)
Features:
You can edit 2D path(s) with Inkscape in all tiny details and export it as polygon(s) as .scad and process it (linear_extrude, rotate_extrude etc) with OpenSCAD to do incredible forms.
I will release new versions at thingiverse.com/thing:28108 direct, and on github.com/Spiritdude/SVG2SCAD
History:
-2012/08/12: 0.005: -openrot switch, to make first/last coord x-pos the same (rotate_extrude() requires that), see updated README
-2012/08/03: 0.003: discovering inconsistancy in path definition, hacking myself to support it
-2012/08/02: 0.002: extended with some functionality
-2012/08/01: 0.001: first rudimentary version
Q: I'm rather new to OpenSCAD, so I ask for some feedback from experienced OpenSCAD users how to convert multiple paths to a single .scad file, any suggestions? Right now multiple paths are "union() { }" enclosed as polygons, so they can't be individually referenced anymore.
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I have an inkscape plugin that creates a module OnePartName####() from each path. Specifically this one is for extruding 2d shapes, so you pass the depth to it when you call it. That seems to work out pretty well.