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Importing a silhouette from Illustrator

John Picton

February 23, 2019 12:39

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Hi all I have a silhouette created as a vector in Illustrator and saved as an svg file. My problem is that when I import it in to Tinkercad it is inverted - IE what I wanted solid is a hole. The silhouette is created as a black image on a white background. I am sure I am missing something very simple. TIA. John

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  Glenn Reimche February 25, 2019 19:33

  Did you try inverting the image colors?

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  John Picton February 25, 2019 22:47

  OK so I worked it out. When I created the silhouette there was a frame around it - I didn't realise that Tinkercad would assume that the bit inside the frame was solid rather than the shape itself.

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  John Picton February 27, 2019 19:51

  Glenn - many thanks for taking the time to respond (very much appreciated). I had tried inverting the colours but it didn't work. I don't know if you saw my follow up but I managed to work it out. It was because I hadn't realised that the frame around the silhouette was tricking Tinkercad in to thinking that the wrong part of the image should be solid. Once again thanks for taking time to respond.

  Cheers

  John