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      ericschimel
      last edited by

      I've been looking for an SVG exporter for SketchUp. I found the "flight of ideas" one that looks to be really promising, however it's not letting me save an SVG.

      I tried to find the developer to contact them but I haven't been successful. Has anyone had any luck with this plugin, or another one perhaps? I want to be able to export to SVG with colors....

      Sketchup SVG Outline Plugin by simonbeard

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      (simonbeard.github.io)

      -Eric
      http://plugin.sketchthis.net
      Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
      Custom Models

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      • sketch3d.deS Offline
        sketch3d.de
        last edited by

        @ericschimel said:

        I want to be able to export to SVG with colors....

        as a work-around you can export to a 2D-PDF and convert to a SVG with the free Inkscape graphics program, dunno if a color gradient will make it threw.

        Alternatively you may want evaluate the commercial SVGmaker for printing from inside SU to a SVG file.

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          ericschimel
          last edited by

          Yeah, I've been doing that, but that's exactly the workflow I want to avoid. I want to export directly from SketchUp. The bummer is that it appears the Flight Of Ideas plugin should work, there's just some odd bug that's preventing it from actually saving the file.

          -Eric
          http://plugin.sketchthis.net
          Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
          Custom Models

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          • Rich O BrienR Offline
            Rich O Brien Moderator
            last edited by

            This works for me on Windows 10 and SU2017 Pro

            FlightsOfIdeas.rbz

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            • sketch3d.deS Offline
              sketch3d.de
              last edited by

              @rich o brien said:

              This works for me on...

              Windows 7 x64 w/ recent SUP 2017 M2 x64 too, besides groups/components which needed to be exploded.

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                ericschimel
                last edited by

                That one works for me. Interestingly it has one less button on the toolbar. Where'd you get that from @rich?

                -Eric
                http://plugin.sketchthis.net
                Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
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                • Rich O BrienR Offline
                  Rich O Brien Moderator
                  last edited by

                  There's was a fork on GitHub from simon's last commit. It worked on 2016.

                  I made one changed to this one. But it is still somewhat broken. The jscolor picker is failing.

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                    ericschimel
                    last edited by

                    Ah, so that one actually works which is cool. It's not exporting faces though... Has anyone seen a plugin that can do that?

                    -Eric
                    http://plugin.sketchthis.net
                    Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
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                      sketch3d.de
                      last edited by

                      @ericschimel said:

                      It's not exporting faces though... Has anyone seen a plugin that can do that?

                      not a plugin and not for free:

                      ScreenShot


                      SVG

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                        ericschimel
                        last edited by

                        Huh... I wonder if that outputs to scale...

                        -Eric
                        http://plugin.sketchthis.net
                        Sketchup Kitchen Design Plugin
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                        • sketch3d.deS Offline
                          sketch3d.de
                          last edited by

                          @ericschimel said:

                          ...if that outputs to scale...

                          Rectangle 100 x 100 mm
                          Top View / Parallel Projection
                          ISO A4 Landscape / Scale 1:1

                          ScreenShot


                          SVG

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                            Marthelm
                            last edited by

                            Hello!

                            I have tried both Rich O Brien's download and the simonbeard version, but nothing happens when I press the "SVG" button on the toolbar. I select the polylines I want to export, all curves are exploded. I really just want this to work 😞

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                              Dave R
                              last edited by

                              @marthelm said:

                              Hello!

                              I have tried both Rich O Brien's download and the simonbeard version, but nothing happens when I press the "SVG" button on the toolbar. I select the polylines I want to export, all curves are exploded. I really just want this to work 😞

                              Someone else also reported that it doesn't work with SU2017. I expect the Flights of Ideas exporter needs to be updated to work with Ruby 2.0. You would need to contact the author or find someone willing to make the updates.

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                              • alexschreyerA Offline
                                alexschreyer Extension Creator
                                last edited by

                                I still think that the DXF and STL export should be baked into SketchUp Make and web (or included as packaged extensions). Those are the most basic exporters (like DAE) and they would support anything from 3DP to CNC and laser cutting (i.e. the maker community). Folks can then convert DXF to SVG (or just use DXF).

                                Author of "Architectural Design with SketchUp":
                                http://sketchupfordesign.com/

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                                • sketch3d.deS Offline
                                  sketch3d.de
                                  last edited by

                                  @alexschreyer said:

                                  I still think that the DXF ... export should be baked into SketchUp Make...

                                  neverever, with the the key difference (= DXF/DWG data exchange) between Make and Pro removed and already lots of users using Make commercially this would probably have a big impact on Pro sales... au contraire, strip down or better discontinue the Make version.

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