Tool usage instructions

[FrankBolleri]

Dear Eneroth3, for first thanks for all your work! I like your plugins, easy to install and to use.

For that reason, I am little in trouble because I do not understand exactly how to make SVG Exporter works. I try to draw something in 2D on the horizontal plane (the one you see selecting Camera -> Standard Views -> Top).

For example:

Then I select the objects and invoke your plugin; it ask to me filename for SVG output. But the result is always a "blank" SVG (I have tried to check it in Google Chrome and importing into LIghtBurn software). What I am doing wrong?

Thanks and I wish you an happy new year! Francesco

[Eneroth3]

Hi,

Have you tried opening the file in an editor like Inkscape or a text editor? Maybe the objects are wrongly positioned or have the same color as the background.

[FrankBolleri]

Checking with a text editor, I was able to understand the issue was in dimensions. Probably in my previous test I draw something "too big" that go out from the maximum dimensions in LightBurn. Drawing in SketchUp paying with more attention to dimensions I get the export as I need.

What I still do not understand, but is irrelevant for my usage need (SketchUp > LightBurn), is the color management.

When you tell have the same color as the background, what is the color source you expect? On svg I always get "#FFFFFF" even if faces in model are colored (as you see in previous picture).

Maybe this is the reason because if I open with Inkscape, I still see nothing:

But if I manually alter colors in text editor:

Inkscape start to show something:

I attach source files if you want to check. Test.zip

Thanks Francesco

[Eneroth3]

Have you checked if the face is reversed? Maybe the face front is white but it's the face back you are seeing.

[FrankBolleri]

The power of knowledge... yes, reversing faces it woks fine.

Thanks a lot! Francesco