I’ve imported an illustrated pdf logo but no sketch or lines created, any idea on this ?
Hello, for a non-text logo you can place the logo image on your design as an outline, use Splines to trace the logo from the image and then extrude. For a text logo like the attached image, we have an alphabet sketch workspace which I attached to my response. You can simply project the alphabet sketches to your design and then extrude.
Alphabet.shapr (664 KB)
Or even better: with the next version you can import dxf/dwg files as sketches, that will make it easy to put your logo on a body.
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Hello!
you can use the app concepts to make your logo and export to dxf. then you import it from shapr3D and modify it as you wish
Regads
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@david.r @Istvan @Victor_Shapr3D
Thank you guys!
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Its quite good, you dont need to do any changes.
Hello! Thank you for your tips!
I can’t put the logo on a body. I’ve exported sketch as dxf and when import it, I’m in the same point… My logo is only lines and I don’t want to offset them. I want to use a few different sizes of cutters (on CNC) and the same sketch (omg…I’m sure it is not understandable… 
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Make sure that the lines actually intersect. If there’s even an infinitesimally small gap, it won’t form an extrudable profile.
Hello, thanks for your reply. The lines don’t intersect because the logo consists of single letters and shapes. Is there another way to transfer the logo to body?
What is meant is the lines of each letter must intersect to make an enclosed sketch that can be extruded. You can’t extrude a line. You can tell if a letter in the sketch is enclosed as it will be a light transparent blue color in the enclosed area.
Project is the preferred method unless you have a flat face on the body you can select to sketch on.
What program did you use to create the pdf? The format needs to be vector and not raster. PDF can incorporate both. Shapr does not see/ translate rasterized images.
IOW if you turned an jpeg image into a PDF, shapr cannot extrude that. If you turned a DXF file into a PDF then it should be able to extrude it.
If the image you provided is the logo you used in your PDF, you can use the line/ spline tools to trace over it to reproduce the letters within Shapr.
OR if you have the font used, just recreate it in a vector program and export as DXF.
Thanks!
The problem is that I don’t want to take out the letters. I want the CNC cutter to run along a line and only have a groove on this line. And the letters and shapes are disconnected. The file was converted from svg to pdf and then to dxf.
Personally I would try using a dedicated vector program like Illustrator, Coreldraw, Inkscape to recreate and export direct to dxf.
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