SVG Exporter
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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....
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@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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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.
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This works for me on Windows 10 and SU2017 Pro
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@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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That one works for me. Interestingly it has one less button on the toolbar. Where'd you get that from @rich?
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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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Ah, so that one actually works which is cool. It's not exporting faces though... Has anyone seen a plugin that can do that?
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@ericschimel said:
It's not exporting faces though... Has anyone seen a plugin that can do that?
not a plugin and not for free:
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Huh... I wonder if that outputs to scale...
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@ericschimel said:
...if that outputs to scale...
Rectangle 100 x 100 mm
Top View / Parallel Projection
ISO A4 Landscape / Scale 1:1
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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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@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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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).
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@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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