Once conversion completed you can download your SVG file. Just drag and drop your STL file on upload form, choose the desired output format and click convert button. You can convert your STL documents from any platform (Windows, Linux, macOS). My first experience with inkscape no problems doing what i wanted.Convert your STL files online. Open the Ai file save as a plain svg then I can open in 123d resize trim etc.įound you need to watch for the little pieces that get left behind if one does not pay attention.īottom line IMHO this is easy especially if you are used to 123d.Īlso found we can use 123d to set different colors for different parts of the design. So Load inkscape open attempt to import an EPS, not recognized. This was more of a challenge not in 123d but in getting it into an SVG file the downloads included an Ai file and an EPS AI viewer will save as a raster file but not vector. Later I decided to try the Mercury Cougar logo. After that it is a fairly straight forward task of selecting the various areas of your object and extruding to desired but various height. Also there is a border that IMHO is unneeded and needs to be deleted. the vectors come in huge and way off the drawing grid so scaling down and moving to the center of the build plate are in order. Import as a solid gave strange results so back up and import as a 2d. So pulled down an svg file of the NISSAN vehicle logo. So fist step search the web for a pertinent readily available logo to experiment with. Seemed like an easy enough Task but one does not know until one tries. Last week on this forum a gentleman asked for help turning his small business logo into an stl file. Earlier this week I had a class of 8 high school aged students that I taught to design their own personalized key fob. I have been using this platform to teach 3d printing design at the local makerspace. And there are the nuisance banners and prompts to encourage you to sign in get the latest upgrade etc.Īll in all IMHO this is a great entry level design program for 3d printing. And of course there is a premium licence for commercial use. And they want you to sign into their web site and save to the cloud.

But this can be disabled in the newer vervins in preferences. I say mostly free as a few strings are attached.

3D designs program from the folks at Autodesk of AutoCAD fame.

123d Design for those who do not know and have not tried it is a mostly free.

Stl to svg inkscape