Import text and geometry from Inkscape
 Tutorial
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| Topic |
|---|
| 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 "Tesselation", 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