Has the Image Generator been removed? Ive got a very basic image that I want to print ... just a word that I drew in photoshop ... Any chance of getting the image generator back or can you recommend a way to extrude this and maybe convert it to .svg or something useful?
Thanks,
Mike Sims
The Image Shape Generator has been wreaking havoc with many users lately when buried deep within groups. Its caused conflicts in designs which prevents the model opening after reaching a certain complexity threshold. We Have removed the Shape until we are able to create a new one that is more efficient and compatible with our current geometry system.
If you really need to use it, you can still copy from any old model that contains the shape.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
I didn't see an option to delete my post, so I wanted to say that I figured out how to do what I needed to do. I basically followed the instructions on this page, but I used his extension for the Inkscape software (even though he said it hasn't been modified for a long time now) by copying the two files into the share/extensions folder in the Inksdape folder under program files, then re-launched the app and somehow I got my image converted into paths ... then selected the whole image and used his extension, which saves the file to opencad format. Then. I opened it in opencad and rendered it then saved it as .stl file and opened in Tinkercad and it worked like a champ for me!
Hope that helps someone in the future...
Mike Sims
Wow! I just came back to TinkerCAD to do this very thing and couldn't find "image generator" anywhere. That was such a cool feature; I wonder why it was removed. There are more tedious ways of accomplishing this (I found something not too bad at http://app.selva3d.com/), but I sure wish TinkerCAD would restore Image Generator!
So image generator no longer exists? Why?!
I figured out that you can just import an image, but first you have to convert it to SVG. I used this website to convert my image.