{"id":2898,"date":"2023-05-08T20:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T01:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2023-02-26T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T02:48:18","slug":"getting-svg-data-into-catia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"Getting SVG Data into CATIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another day, another type of data to import into CATIA. This time is the classic SVG format used by LightBurn and often edited with InkScape. This is pretty quick but I wanted a bunch of screenshots to make it easy to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Start out with the CatDrawing tools menu, we want to import from file. There are other ways to bring in an image, but we don&#8217;t want the SVG imported as an image, we want the full geometry data in it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"329\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-34.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-34.png 329w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-34-178x300.png 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Import SVG data from file into a CATDRAWING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the file type drop down, select SVG, and pick your favorite file.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-33.png 591w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-33-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Select your favorite SVG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With it imported, you&#8217;ll end up with something like this. There is a fill in all the geometry features. We don&#8217;t need the fill as we just want to keep the outlines to use in our part sketches.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-35.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-35.png 540w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-35-292x300.png 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SVG data in a CATDRAWING<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Luckily the interiors are easy to remove, just select and delete. They aren&#8217;t linked to the rest of the geometry so nothing else will be lost with their deletion.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"378\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-36.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-36.png 651w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-36-300x174.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Selecting the interiors to remove<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now we can just select our line geometry, copy it from the CATDRAWING, and paste it into the part sketch. Everything can be dimensioned as usual from there.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-37.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-37.png 678w, https:\/\/lab.rapternet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-37-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">SVG data in a CATPART sketch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This worked out well. I needed something a bit more robust for editing some files for my wordclock, and CATIA was the answer to that. I was able to do my editing, send the data back out to a CATDRAWING and finally to an SVG. I had to scale it to the right size in LightBurn (looks like CATIA really doesn&#8217;t like SVGs), but it worked well enough for me to get my parts lasered out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another type of data to import into CATIA. This time is the classic SVG format used by LightBurn and often edited with InkScape. 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