Trace a picture or image from an image using 360 or inventor

[zenkustumz]

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to import an image (lettering) or image (shape) and make it into a 3d item?

[TrippyLighting]

Sure. YOu insert the image as a Canvas and then start a sketch on that same plane you inserted the Canvas onto and trace the shape with the available tools such as line, arc, spline etc.

Then you can extrude the profile that you sketched, provided it contitutes a closed profile. Usually in the sketch environment a closed sketch "loop" turns yellowish to indicate that it's closed.

[HughesTooling]

You can import a image and manually trace.

Link to HELP

Mark

[zenkustumz]

Awesome.. Thank you so much.. Awesome.. Sorry for the newbie questions..

John

[AnandSomani]

Just one addition which came to my mind...

If you have the SVG file, you can also use the Sketch > Import SVG command.

It will directly create the sketch for you,if that's what you meant.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I'm having the same problem. I'm new to the whole 3D modeling thing and i need some help with figuring out hoe to import an SVG because it's not and SVG but is there a way to make a regular PDF into an SVG?

[yqliu]

You can't  make a PDF into an SVG in Fusion 360, but you can make it in Adobe Illustrator.

Richard

[Anonymous]

@TrippyLighting wrote:

Sure. YOu insert the image as a Canvas and then start a sketch on that same plane you inserted the Canvas onto and trace the shape with the available tools such as line, arc, spline etc.

Then you can extrude the profile that you sketched, provided it contitutes a closed profile. Usually in the sketch environment a closed sketch "loop" turns yellowish to indicate that it's closed.

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great! Now ambarassingly I am trying to import the Jpeg to the platform and I m not able to copy paste, drag and drop, or import, do you have any more tricks. as you can tell I m very Novice<

[JDMather]

I learned to do this by going through the Help>Tutorials....

[Anonymous]

Hi, i have a lot of experience in Illustrator, and have a fully spec'd and detailed SVG drawing of an electric guitar, and whenever i import it to fusion and go to extrude it, I lose all of the detail, i can only extrude 1 part and then i cant do anything. Any help would be massively helpful.

[davebYYPCU]

The Browser on the left side needs to be open.

Then you can make sketch 1 visible again, to do more operations from that sketch, but with browser closed you can't get to the visibility lighbulb.

Might help...

[Anonymous]

thank u so much it helped me alot

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@AnandSomani wrote:

Just one addition which came to my mind...

If you have the SVG file, you can also use the Sketch > Import SVG command.

It will directly create the sketch for you,if that's what you meant.

Thanks.

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[zenkustumz]

Is there a way to resize the Svg once it's imported can't seem to figure it
out. Does it need to be by itself (it's own file)

Thanks for your assistance.

John

[davebYYPCU]

The SVG data - generally - should be in its own sketch when it arrives, you can edit it in Fusion, if needed.

Change size - you can scale the sketch articles with Sketch > Scale,  Fusion will fail if you select the anchor point as part of the data being scaled, work out the new size as a scale factor, no other input allowed, (Desired size /  Actual size)

Might help....