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Importing .SVG Into a Part Studio
Luke_Chase
Member Posts: 8 EDU
Can you import .SVG files into a plane in a part studio? I need to make something match an image/logo so I converted it to a .SVG, but I can't figure out how to put it into a part studio so I can do an extrude on it.
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Jake_Rosenfeld
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 
Hi @Luke_Chase ,
There are instructions here about getting your image into a part studio:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/sketch-image.htm
Basically you're going to want to upload the image to your Onshape document, start a sketch, and click the "Insert Image" button (which looks like a mountain with an arrow pointing at it. It may be hiding behind the "Import DXF button"):
We don't currently support the SVG format for this, try converting to PNG. We'll have that help page updated soon to say which formats are accepted!Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team5
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There are instructions here about getting your image into a part studio:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/sketch-image.htm
Basically you're going to want to upload the image to your Onshape document, start a sketch, and click the "Insert Image" button (which looks like a mountain with an arrow pointing at it. It may be hiding behind the "Import DXF button"):
We don't currently support the SVG format for this, try converting to PNG. We'll have that help page updated soon to say which formats are accepted!
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- In Inkscape, Open the SVG
- "Save As" with format "Desktop Cutting Plotter (AutoCAD DXF R14) (*.dxf)", then chose "mm" as Base unit and "UTF-8" as Character Encoding.
- In OnShape, create a Sketch
- "Insert a DXF or DWG file"
- Click "Import..." and select your file.
You should be good to go from there!I love Inkscape, but inserting it in this workflow is unnecessary. SVG is a 23yo format.
in case anyone finds this later - I too found this frustrating, but found another post with a different angle that helped me.
Creating a sketch from a face, with edges imported — Onshape
I import my dxf into new sketch. In my case it's an outline of a shape, so it has a face, but none of the points are connected (all blue). Save this.
Create a second sketch. I'm a newbie so i had to search for it, but select "Use" tool. and pick the face of the first sketch.
After some time, the face, and properly coincident points are nice and black in second sketch.
Happy dance - it's the little things. Hope it helps someone.
So you based a new sketch on the old one to get all points black, but what if you move one of the blue points in the older sketch? Wouldn't that still destroy your model?
Please upvote this improvement request: