![]() ![]() Finally, select the main part of the object and type in a slightly smaller number for that one so that we can see the cylinders sticking out like in the following pic: Now select the other circle and do the same. You should see the circle change into a cylinder. While it’s selected, click in the extrude box and type in a small number, say 0.03. At this point one of the circles should still be selected as indicated by the orange ring highlight. On the complicated panel to the right, press the tiny button indicated by the yellow arrow in the next pic.Īfter you click that button, In that same image, note the ‘extrude’ parameter pointed to with the green arrow. Right click on one of the circles in the object, it should get an orange ring around it to indicate it’s selected. Now what we want to do here is select each part of the object and extrude it so it takes on a 3D shape. Click this and then move the mouse to size the object larger or smaller. Once this is done, in the upper left corner menu, you should see a button labeled ‘scale’. To resize it larger in Blender, press the ‘B’ key and use the right mouse button to draw a box around the entire object. It will probably come in quite small depending on the size it was saved as in Inkscape. Now go to file>import and select Scaleable Vector Graphics (svg) this should be what you saved the above object created in Inkscape as. You should see a single 3D cube in the center of the screen, press the delete key and a small popup will appear asking if it’s ok to delete the cube, click delete. When you first load blender you will see the spash screen, click at the top of that and it will go away. ![]() If you are interested there are literally tons of tutorials including many youtube videos on how to do all sorts of things with Blender. ![]() I’m just going to do something simple here, convert my flat vector to a 3D object so I’m not going to go into any of the complexities of the program. But of course, with that power comes a fair amount of learning curve and complexity. This is a really nice 3D program that can do almost anything. Save it as a normal (the default) svg file. So now we are done with this flat vector image, it should look like the image above. Note that you can make small adjustments to the position of the circle with the arrow keys too. ![]() Drag the circle over to the other side of the main shape. it will look like nothing happened but it pasted another copyn of the circle directly over the original. While the circle is selected, under the top meny, select Edit>Copy, then Edit>Paste in Place. Drag it onto the main shape and position it at one end. Now, select the arrow tool, it’s at the top of the left menu, and select the circle. any color will do, it just needs to be different than the main shape. Use the same technique to change the color of the circle with the Fill and Stroke window. Select the circle tool from the menu and draw a nice little circle next to your first shape. Now lets draw some circles in the shape, we will turn these into holes in the next section after we have turned this into a 3D shape. I’ve change it to a redish sort of color in this next pic. You can set the sliders to pick another color for your object. You should see a small window on the side of the screen. If it’s not already open, go to Object>Fill and Stroke. It will round the corners of the square.Īgain, just for fun, lets change the color of this shape. Notice the corners of the square, there are two round selectors, just for fun, grab the one in the upper right with the mouse cursor and drag it down. It’s just below the ruler and use it to draw a square on the screen. You can set this to any size you wish, but for now we can just leave it as so.įrom the menu on the left, select the square tool. The square in the middle is a 8×11 document. Open it up and the expand the window so it fits your whole screen. Inkscape is a very capable program but not too bad in the learning curve department. I don’t have a lot of experience with 2D programs so in order to get better at designing things for my 3D router to cut out, I’ve been playing with Inkscape.īlender is a 3D program that I’ve actually used quite a bit so I decided to give it a try to make 3D objects out of flat vector drawings. Convert 2D to 3D for freeįirst, you will need a couple of programs, Inkscape, a vector drawing program and Blender, a 3D program. Click on any of the pictures for a full size image. Or I guess a 2.5D part? Anyhow, I wrote up a quick tutorial on it, here it is if you are interested. I think I’ve gotten the cut out a flat part operation and tool chain figured out, so I figured I would try to get a flat drawing into Blender and extrude it into a nice 3D part. I’ve been playing around trying to get comfortable doing things with 2D vector drawings so that I can cut things out with my new 3D router. ![]()
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