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Importing 2D SVGs - Tinkercad Tutorial
From the course: Learning Tinkercad
Importing 2D SVGs
- You can add vector artwork by importing 2D SVG files into TinkerCAD Let's talk quickly about SVGs. This is a vector format, and it's the only one that you can import into TinkerCAD. If you have an EPS, a DXF, Illustrator, or PDF file, you'll need to export it to SVG from a graphics program like illustrator. The import tool treats all colors as one. So one color SVG files are the most predictable and successful options, let's try it out. In the upper right hand side of the toolbar, you'll find import. Choose a file, navigate to the provided exercise files and choose House.SVG, and then choose open. You can choose to adjust the scale or the dimensions. I'll adjust the width to 200 millimeters so that it fits on our work plane. Then click import. Switch it to a top few so we can take a look. This is our imported SVG, and there are some weird results. It doesn't look quite like I expected it to. And that's because there…
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