FreeCAD - Import and Edit SVG files

[@B3ll3r0ph0nt3s]

Something I have noticed while working along your videos, for the horizontal and vertical constraints you can also click the line between the points, FreeCAD will then automatically select the corresponding points. I find this quicker and easier than manually selecting the points themselves =).

[@juliorrsantos]

Thank you very much! I'm learning how to model from zero with you.

[@timinwsac]

Quick tip.....if you leave the draft workbench and have found that you forgot to turn off the grid just use the "g r" key combo.

[@rklauco]

Thanks for the video. For those of us where the freecad does not provide decimal places in the scale dialog - go to Edit -> Preferences -> Units. Do not change anything, just hit apply and OK. Close and re-open the scale dialog - voila, 6 decimal places are there :)

[@dragonthc]

There is such a thing as too much precision.

[@connormccarter9581]

So you can scan a hand drawing. Use inkscape to "trace" the drawing to a SVG. And this completes the path to a 3d print! Thank you so much!

[@thehardwareguy]

Yes exactly! thanks for watching

[@darren6542]

Nice vid I’ve learned a new ability in FreeCAD. You can also zoom to fit by clicking the icon with “ a page with magnifying glass “ that will centre and fit the object/sketch. Keep up the good work

[@brandonstevens5628]

great video, do you think you could do a one in Freecad on how to import and sketch on top of images like PNG or JPEG

[@godin8262]

Very nice video. At one point you make your little Twitter scale bigger, in my case I need to reduce my model and the scaling just increases the size for what did understand. How do you scale down?

[@fijabo]

Thank you very much! You are my first stop whenever I need FreeCAD tutorials. I really appreciate the time and dedication you put into these videos. You're getting only thumbs up 👍 from me.

[@andyday806]

Super super, thanks a lot. It's very useful freecad video tutorial... Keep it up

[@fyfoh]

You are a lifesaver. Thanks for the very useful videos!

[@thehardwareguy]

Glad I could help!

[@tc8257]

Keep these videos coming! Your work is very appreciated. Thank you.

[@Reiku03]

Thanks, this is exactly what i needed. I can draw easily in a vector program all day, but being new to FreeCad, I didn't want to slow down what I want to build by having to learn everything beforehand.

[@thehardwareguy]

Glad it helped! thanks for watching

[@j.m.johnson]

This was very helpful. Thank you!!

[@nirl6171]

Thanks for all the Freecad Videos! Much appreciated. Would love to see a tutorial for creating a Spotify Code 3d Model in it as well.

[@Zakaria-if2ld]

Thanks, useful knowledge. I have to draw again and again so that the image can be enlarged from the 0,0,0 coordinate point.

[@Johngtaxi]

Good morning, I just finished watching your SVG to STL file using free cad. My question is is there any way to make the outside surface of what you’re extruding smoother in free CAD. When I open the exported stl file in lychee software, the sides sort of look blocky and didn’t know if there was a way or settings in freecad to smooth out the number of lines for the contour. Thanks for any help you can provide and keep up the good tutorials on free cad

[@magneticartist]

I like your video tutorials. Been following you since your 1st FreeCad tutorial. You explain things very well and always straight to the point and easy to understand. Unlike me, always picking my nose and get lost Lol.

[@RustyTube]

The problem with that is that it does not ask which plane it should be in, and just creates a sketch in the XY plane. But I need it in the XZ plane and the only place I could find talking about it is an message on the FreeCAD forum where someone asks how to do it and later replies to himself that he had figure it out, but did not bother to tell the rest of us how to do it. So how do you do it?

[@oscardominguez6491]

Great video, thank you!!

[@DukingAroundDIY]

This was a very useful tutorial, thanks

[@randypayne7659]

Sweet Dude Tat's exactly what I was looking for!!!

[@thehardwareguy]

Glad I could help Randy!

[@ChanSiewWei]

Thanks! This is just what I need.

[@Hecontra]

Thank you so much . your video helped me a lot

[@republicadeeslomismo1133]

Good morning, im trying to import a .svg file into Freecad, but software takes it like a all piece (filled). How are you doing to it justa takes outline? Thank you!

[@jmemusic]

4:12 -> Not necessary. I saw that this depends on the SVG you import. If you are using Inkscape to create SVG, then you need to move your paths to the origin there; otherwise, they won't appear on the origin from FreeCAD

[@dimnotion]

What do you do if the path imported on a different Axe? Even the 300mm box we create matches the wrong axe.

[@jhbonarius]

What I noticed is that if I import svg, and extrude it like you show is that the resulting shape doesn't work in any tool, like thickness or offset. I guess it's because the polycurve line is imported as a all separate B-splines instead of one multi-knot one. Do you have any solution to that?

[@ryanb6503]

What's the best way to constrain all of those points? I have an SVG where a certain portion needs to be an exact size.

[@superdau]

Is there a way to import SVG lines and circles as ACTUAL lines and circles into FreeCAD? I get all B-splines in the sketch, even for straight lines, which makes it very hard to reference further geometry to it.

[@tanjamuller3247]

First of all thanks for the video! I almost got the result I wanted…although it doesn’t let me scale the svg file downwards. And the svg file is so big plus it doesn’t pin the imported file to the origin… like in your video:( maybe you have a guess what I am doing wrong

[@venkataramayya4266]

Can you come up with a Swimlane Chart of the process flow that you have used in your KZbin video? Also, can you provide a transcript of your commentary to help us, slowpokes, to understand the steps that you followed to develop the object in FreeCAD?

[@BenDavis78]

I would like to see how this can be done with more complex SVG, such as one with holes and non-contiguous parts (eg, lettering from a logo)

[@bigd22686]

That's what I'm trying to do rn, dunno if im doing it right but freecad keeps freezing and crashing on me

[@pyd8032]

It is doable but much more complex, you have to modify each non continuous parts manually. If you want to avoid a crash of the software you can create different sketches with only few parts.

[@sokts5422]

i tried that with an svg made of 4-5 solids full of b-splines but i wasn't able to make changes on the b-spline curves... do you know any workaround maybe? thanks!

[@2009daskueken]

After transforming the SVG into a sketch, how do I center the Twitter logo on a face of another body?

[@borysstruk9067]

Very cool video. You really motivate me to study new cool stuff. thanks for it. Can you please show how to make such models more rounded.

[@TheGg6422]

Trying to make a small set of speakers and use CNC mill to create mounting hole. Can FreeCAD do assemblies and generate gcodes to mill out parts?

[@GabrielAlejandroZorrilla]

hmmm, in my case, C asks me nothing, when I import it just creates a new file. What am I missing?

[@chriscrump8233]

actually figured out if you just select imported formats instead of svg it will prompt you for it.

[@kenweb27]

Finally 🤩

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

To me it just opens the svg in another tab, as normal image. I'm getting frustrated :-/

[@dieselhead24]

Might need to go into Prefs and click 'Show Grid'

[@Ed19601]

Thanks, exactly what I needed. Sadly though I can't use it as upon importing an svg I get the '/PyQt5/QtCore.so' error, which, so I have learned from internet, has a 1000 solutions with none of them working. Anyway, that is not your fault. Great video

[@ecophage]

says "no technical drawing found in selection" when i try to export it

[@wantafastz28]

Thank you!

[@nams37]

Thank you

[@antfeurla993]

Someone can help me ? When I import a svg I don't have the window "select module .. open svg as ..Drawing or geometry" :( ... and it seems that my freecad import it as drawing ! what can I do to be able to choose to import it as geometry ?! thanks ! ( I'm on ubuntu , freecad 19)

[@exeproductive]

Hey, when I try to do it with more objects It makes invisible both

[@Blackazza]

all goes well until i import the svg file and i get a dozen paths and they wont move or do anything in draft workbench! super frustrating

[@holgerlangbein1440]

Danke!

[@thehardwareguy]

very kind, thank you so much.

[@SilentscufflE]

I do not have a New Body button.

[@makewithmegma]

❤🔥👌👍

[@DANPLAYMING]

no hablo muy bien ingles, pero muchas gracias

[@ЧеловекРазумный-д6х]

100% Изменение размеров

[@TheDanzman1211]

If only you can slow down or add a transcription of what you are.talkong about!

[@ЖеВуЗем-г9ч]

Ни о чем...

[@russellw5447]

Thanks Mate, I'm an Modeller looking to use *.svg 3 Views. This'll help a lot!

[@hiddenchambers2922]

Thx for sharing! Very cool