Scaling Down an imported SVG

[comeinandburn]

HI,

This may be an extremely silly question, but when I attempt to scale down an imported SVG it seems to be able to scale up but not down. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I'm creating text in Inkscape then converting it to a path, importing into FreeCAD, and upgrading it to create faces. Problem is it's way too large.

Any help would be appreciated.

OS: Mac OS X
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6706 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: tag: 0.16.6706
Hash: f86a4e411ff7848dea98d7242f43b7774bee8fa0
Python version: 2.7.11
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 3.1.3
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

[Willem]

Hi, when importing an SVG file made in Inkscape you have to realize that 1 px in Inkscape is imported as 1 mm in FreeCad. Scaling can easiest be done in Inkscape.

Another possibility is that in FreeCad you create clones of your faces or extrusions. Clones can be scaled to the size you want

[shoogen]

when importing an SVG file made in Inkscape you have to realize that 1 px in Inkscape is imported as 1 mm in FreeCad.

I thought this was only the case for exporting. AFAIK the importer uses 90 dpi per default.
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... VG.py#L510

[Chris_G]

One thing to note, is that Inkscape 0.92, released last month, now has a 96 dpi scale.

[comeinandburn]

Another possibility is that in FreeCad you create clones of your faces or extrusions. Clones can be scaled to the size you want

Thanks Willem, that helps alot... this begs another question though. Is there a way to constrain the scale to all axis at the same time without adding values for each co-ordinate?

[NormandC]

Hi,

Are you aware that Draft ShapeString allows you to create text directly in FreeCAD?

[comeinandburn]

Thanks NormadC that's helpful! I've got a lot to learn.. ha ha.