{"id":488,"date":"2017-04-20T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/?p=488"},"modified":"2017-04-20T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:36:35","slug":"making-an-svg-file-3d-in-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/making-an-svg-file-3d-in-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"Making an SVG File 3D In Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite some earlier blog posts on the matter, I have become fond of using Inkscape to make SVG files for my 3D Models.\u00a0 (My breakthrough came when I started saving as a “Plain SVG<\/strong>” format instead of an “Inkscape SVG” format).<\/p>\n

I figured I should document my process at pulling and prepping those files in Blender.<\/p>\n

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  1. Import the SVG file.\u00a0 File->Import->Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)<\/strong>\"IMport<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. It looks like nothing happened, but your SVG is there.\u00a0 It’s just really really really small.\u00a0 If you look to the right in your Objects listing, you can see a new “Curve” that was not there before.
    \n    \"SVG<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Resize the object so you can see it better.
    \n    \"Resize\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Sometimes resizing it takes it off the screen and the Object’s Origin is not very intuitive\u00a0 For that, I change the Object’s Origin to the Center of the Mass.\u00a0 I do that by going to Object->Transform->Center of Mass
    \n    \"Object<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. Then I can change all the Transform coordinates to 0,0,0 to center my new SVG
    \n    \"PUt<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. SVGs pull in as Curves.\u00a0 You’ll want to convert it to a Mesh before doing anything with it.\u00a0 You can do that by going to Object->Convert to->Mesh from Curve\/Meta\/Serf\/Text
    \n    \"Convert<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. OPTIONAL – Get Rid of Black Color<\/strong><\/em>
    \nWhen I was new to Blender and Inkscape, I could not figure out why my Inkscape SVGs were all black… and I just did not know enough to find the right keywords to Google.\u00a0 Later when I learned about Materials<\/strong>, it will started to click.\u00a0 The SVGs import in with a Default Material.\u00a0 If you want to get rid of that, click on the Materials <\/strong>icon for your object, click on the black material and hit –<\/strong> to get rid of it.
    \n    \"Getting<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. With your newly converted Mesh selected, switch to Edit<\/strong> mode.\"Switch<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Click A<\/strong> to select all vertices.<\/li>\n
  10. Go to Extrude->Region<\/strong> to give your 2D Object some Depth.\u00a0 If you can you the mouse to size or type in a measurement– for example 0.5 for 0.5mm.\"Extrude<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. And then you have a 3D Object in Blender from an SVG file.\"3D<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Despite some earlier blog posts on the matter, I have become fond of using Inkscape to make SVG files for my 3D Models.\u00a0 (My breakthrough came when I started saving as a “Plain SVG” format instead of an “Inkscape SVG” format). I figured I should document my process at pulling and prepping those files in … Continue reading Making an SVG File 3D In Blender<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,63,155],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-modeling","tag-blender","tag-inkscape","tag-svg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}