In edit mode, press e to extrude, y for the y axis and move the mouse. Now, if you press tab to enter edit mode, you should see vertices instead of paths. Next, we will convert the path into a mesh. Therefore, you may need to clean slightly (e.g., delete the paths). You may see random paths around your image. We are going to rotate the object around the x-axis.ĭepending on your image and whether you adjusted the speckles in Inkscape. In the outliner panel on the right, you should see the svg file listed as a collection and the path underneath. The imported object is probably very small. Select the svg file you saved from Inkscape.Īt first you may think nothing happened. Click File->Import->Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) (not the grease pencil). Choose a filename and select “Plain SVG” as the output file. This will hide the image so we can see just the paths. Click on the image and then in the Layers and Objects panel on the right click the eye icon next to the image. Once happy with the settings, click Apply.īefore we head to Blender, I like to check the result. I am leaving at 1 however, if you want sharper corners, you may reduce this setting. Smooth corners determines how a curved path should look. In my tests, I didn’t notice speckles in Inkscape, but I saw the wayward paths when I imported into Blender. If you find that you have a few small paths that are artifacts of the scan, you can increase the speckle size. Speckles removes speckles from the image. Next, you have a few options to improve the resulting paths. If I wanted to remove the penguin, I could drop the threshold to 0.010. Again, you can see a preview of the results. Threshold determines what level of brightness is included or excluded from the scan. Once you select the detection mode, you can adjust the settings to your liking. If whichever setting you choose is not working well, you may need to decrease the contrast of your image (my recommendation is to use Gimp for this). My image works well with either brightness or edge detection. You can try the different options and see the preview to see the effect. Next, we need to choose the detection mode. However, if you have multiple elements that you want to create as different paths, you would select multicolor. In my case, I will choose single scan, because I only need one path. The first decision is whether you want to create one path or multiple paths. A panel will appear on the right that provides the options for the tracing. Next, right click on the image and select “Trace Bitmap”. Keep the default import options and click ok. You will see a pop-up with import options. Next, click File->Import and select our image above. As we will see in more detail below, SVG works based on paths that are made up of geometric primitives (circles, squares). The PNG file is 794×1123 pixels, which means that if you print it at more than 8 inches by 8 inches, you would lose image quality.īased on the benefits of SVG, why isn’t every image stored as SVG? SVG is better for illustration type graphics. The same image in PNG format is 23 KB and the PNG version has limits to scaling.

Inkscape convert image to stroke vector