I’m much earlier in my growth into 3D printing. This is my very first excursion into the realm. I’ve learned that 123Design can accept an image, only SVG format. That’s an easy concept. I’m trying to build a case for a USB webcam from a robotics parts vendor. The webcam didn’t come with a case of it’s own, understandably considering it’s source. After trying out AutoDesk Fusion 360 & attending a few of the user groups meetings here in Portland, I learned of 123Design, a user-friendly free download. The reason for wishing to work around a picture, is that I can take such a pic of the webcam, & hope to use 123Design to build the case around it, to make maximum effort to have prototype actually fit the webcam. The latter has 3 orientation notches on it’s circular rim, so I need to accurately place pins in the wall of the case, to keep the webcam orientation upright. So I anticipate a photo would not only allow me to size the case correctly but also place the orientation pins in precisely the needed locations. So far, have used Inkscape to convert jpeg to SVG image & imported into 123Design, but 2 problems. The SVG image is exceptionally faint & initial conversion was quite large & seemed to lock up 123Design, with Mac spinning color wheel forever. Even after it seemed to have been imported, 123Design commands failed to do anything to the SVG image. I hope you can help’

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