Import text and geometry from Inkscape: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:52, 17 July 2016

Topic
Tutorial
Import text and geometry from Inkscape
Level
Beginner
Time to complete
30 minutes
Authors
r-frank
FreeCAD version
0.16.6703
Example files

See also
None

Introduction

This tutorial is supposed to show how to import text or geometry created with inkscape via svg-format into FreeCAD.
Inkscape 0.91 and FreeCAD 0.16.6704 on Windows are used for these operations.

General tipps for importing from inkscape

the svg-import in FreeCAD cannot handle a svg file with a resolution of more than 45 dpi, so check the settings in inkscape
when importing path objects which show up in the 3D view in FreeCAD not very smooth it may be a matter of the FreeCAD-settings for the shape view.
- in FreeCAD choose Edit → Preferences → Part Design → Shape View
- as for "Tesslation", the "Maximum deviation depending on the model bounding box" the default value is "0,5 %"
- setting this to a lower value will increase smoothness of the model in the 3D view (and use more PC performance)
- don't use values lower than "0,01 %", this will most likely crash FreeCAD
- in that case deleting "system.cfg" and "user.cfg" in your FreeCAD-user-directory will solve this problem

Importing text from Inkscape

Importing geometry from Inkscape

Credits

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 == Introduction == <!--T:2-->
+This tutorial is supposed to show how to import text or geometry created with inkscape via svg-format into FreeCAD.<br />
+Inkscape 0.91 and FreeCAD 0.16.6704 on Windows are used for these operations.<br />
-== Importing text from Inkscape == <!--T:3-->
+== General tipps for importing from inkscape == <!--T:3-->
+*the svg-import in FreeCAD cannot handle a svg file with a resolution of more than 45 dpi, so check the settings in inkscape
+*when importing path objects which show up in the 3D view in FreeCAD not very smooth it may be a matter of the FreeCAD-settings for the shape view.
+**in FreeCAD choose {{KEY| Edit}}  →  {{KEY| Preferences}}  →  {{KEY| Part Design}}  →  {{KEY| Shape View}}
+**as for "Tesslation", the "Maximum deviation depending on the model bounding box" the default value is "0,5 %"
+**setting this to a lower value will increase smoothness of the model in the 3D view (and use more PC performance)
+**don't use values lower than "0,01 %", this will most likely crash FreeCAD
+**in that case deleting "system.cfg" and "user.cfg" in your FreeCAD-user-directory will solve this problem
-== Importing geometry from Inkscape == <!--T:4-->
+== Importing text from Inkscape == <!--T:4-->
+== Importing geometry from Inkscape == <!--T:5-->
+== Credits == <!--T:6-->