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arpruss / inflatemesh

Inflate 2D svg files to 3D STL or OpenSCAD files
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Unable to understand how to install and use this extention #1

Open mofosyne opened 5 years ago

mofosyne commented 5 years ago

I was following https://inkscape.org/gallery/=extension/ but was unable to understand if it is installed or not, or how to use this extension

tony-richmond-ii commented 5 years ago

Same. I've installed and used several extensions, but can't get this one to work. No idea what I'm doing wrong, not fun.

arpruss commented 5 years ago

You should choose File | Save As... and then select the OpenSCAD inflated mesh type.

tony-richmond-ii commented 5 years ago

Well, dang. There it is. Couple of errors while saving got me to understand where to copy/paste the right folders, and within a couple minutes I have an SCAD file. Thanks! Now I need to go figure out what to do with it!!!

mofosyne commented 5 years ago

What was the mistake you did? Maybe we should note that down in the readme?

tony-richmond-ii commented 5 years ago

I don't recall exact details, but after moving the unzipped files to the extension folder, I had to move one of the unzipped folders into another folder. It was really easy to follow the inkscape error trackback. "can't find blah blah blah in whatever". So I put it there. Happened twice, I think. Then no problem with running it. Another issue I had was that it seems inflate only works with red fill, black outline path. I guess it could be coincidental, but I had an image not save. I noticed all the demos I found were red, tried that, no problem. Haven't bothered to test any further. Maybe both of these things are noted someplace and I just missed them (wouldn't surprise me either). Really cool bit of code. Very glad it exists.