how modify an imported patent drawing with inkscape.

They Temporarily looked correctly Indented but, it was only a ‘momentary’ thing that was not saved. NOTE: Perhaps an issue Only with Mac/OSX but, I noticed the Layers were not always being properly exported in the Inkscape svg.ĭigging into it, I discovered that, ‘Dragging’ to move the layers via the XML panel would not work. Shapes like elipse’s also require Path’ing. The Large and Tall-Skinny Rectangles did Not need to be Path’d but the Small Rectangles Did Require Path’ing (with or without radius corners). The issue seems to be related to: Size of the shape. The “ Yes” is: making the small Rectangles with, or without Radius’d corners into a Path. The “ No” is: when making small Rectangles with, or without Radius’d corners. I wanted to see if repeating the “Simplified” approach when using Inkscape would work as well as when using Gravit.

Also shows up correctly in a Geber Viewer… The Gerber with All the cutouts (and board shape) easily imported into CopperCam (for creating CNC Gcode). In fact, it will work with only a board>boardoutline layer!īelow shows the various elements in Gravit, Fritzing and the exported Gerber Contour file. I want to underscore: No Paths, No Difference, No Subtraction… Proximity to other elements no problems!! Silkscreen worked too Loading the file into Fritzing for the PCB resulted in a ‘Magical’ outcome!Īll elements intended as Cutouts worked including those with tiny features such as Rectangle-Width = 1px and Radius of 0.25px. NOTE: the one ‘Path’ item shown in the Layer panel is a ‘Freehand’ drawn Path (not an element converted into a Path). I simply created the elements and exported as SVG. I did NOT do any Boolean (diff, subtract…) or Pathing. I created a new SVG (using Gravit) that has the recommended Layers (silkscreen, board and boardoutline). Then, exporting an SVG image from Fritzing, revealed the exported file gets updated to include a “boardoutline” layer. Loading a very basic SVG (with my Hand-coded svg (noted in my replies to this post).

However, no matter how it’s elements are crafted, differenced, subtracted or path’d, it never consistently worked (for me). I read the SVG1.2 specification to better understand what Fritzing wants - Here’s my take on it:Īfter reading Fritzing info and importing & exporting many SVG’s into/from Fritzing to gain understanding, I discovered some ‘Magic’ that seems to work perfectly well, repeatedly!įritzing info suggests using a Layer called “boardoutline” for cutouts. Summary: A simple way to make the Board with Cutouts (and silkscreen) that appears to play well with Fritzing. I Discovered Some ‘ Magic’ regarding making the Board’s SVG

How modify an imported patent drawing with inkscape.