Did not find any threads that seem to cover this. I have a detailed scale 2D drawing of the structural steel component that I would like to 3D print in plastic (below). Is there a method to place this into a new FreeCAD drawing and then modify, and add 3rd dimension where needed? I plan to create a flat-backed 3D structure that can be glued to the face of an MDF board structural piece in the larger model.
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Use of existing architectural drawing to start a 3D print file?
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Re: Use of existing architectural drawing to start a 3D print file?
Hi and welcome to the forum!
You cannot work directly with the image. You can import it into FreeCAD, scale it and then manually trace over the object. Or you use e.g. Inkscape to do this automatically and write an svg file. Then you can import the svg file into FreeCAD.
You cannot work directly with the image. You can import it into FreeCAD, scale it and then manually trace over the object. Or you use e.g. Inkscape to do this automatically and write an svg file. Then you can import the svg file into FreeCAD.
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Re: Use of existing architectural drawing to start a 3D print file?
This could be useful too: Macro_FCBmpImport
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