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SVG to STL: turn your drawing into a 3D model

Choose an SVG file and get a solid ready to print: a logo on a plate, a keychain, a cookie stamp, a sign or a stencil. Filled shapes and lines both come through, in the drawing's own colours if you like. Your file stays in your browser.

How to use it

  1. Press Choose a file… and pick an SVG. Until you do, an example shows.
  2. Set the width; the height follows the drawing.
  3. Under Shape, choose the drawing standing out (on its own or on a plate), engraved in a plate, or cut right through as a stencil.
  4. Drag in the 3D view to look round it. Under the settings you see how big it comes out and how many shapes it found.
  5. Press Download STL. It lies flat, ready for your slicer.

What comes through

  • Filled shapes: paths, rectangles, circles, ellipses and polygons, with their holes (the inside of an O stays open).
  • Lines (strokes) become bands as thick as they are drawn, with round or square ends; or leave them out.
  • White shapes drawn over others are cut out, as they look; or make them too.
  • Groups and transforms, as drawing programs write them. Text that is still text is not read: turn it into outlines (paths) first.

Good to know for printing

  • On an FDM printer with a 0.4 mm nozzle, keep the thinnest parts of the drawing at least 0.8 mm wide at the size you print.
  • A raised drawing of 1 to 2 mm on a plate of 2 to 3 mm prints fast; pause at the top of the plate to change the filament colour.
  • Simple drawings print best: very fine detail and thousands of small shapes make large files and slow prints.

Questions

Is SVG to 3D free?
Yes. Try as many drawings as you like without an account. To download the STL you get a link by mail, which makes your free WAZO3D account at the same time; members download straight away.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The SVG is read in your own browser and goes nowhere. Only the STL you ask for is made, and only when you ask for it.
Why does part of my drawing not show?
Text that is still text, embedded pictures (PNG or JPEG inside the SVG) and effects such as blur are not read. Turn text into outlines in your drawing program; a picture has no shape to make solid.
Can I use its colours?
Yes: under Look, choose the drawing's own colours, and every colour becomes a part of its own. In the WAZO3D editor you can paint them as you like.
Can I change the model afterwards?
Open it in the WAZO3D editor: add a hole for a key ring, a stand or a handle, combine it with other parts, and check it for printing.

Do more with it in WAZO3D

Put your drawing on a model of your own, make a stamp with a handle, a sign with holes for screws, check it for printing and export it all at once. WAZO3D is powerful 3D modelling without the complexity, in your browser.

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