What I want to do is produce thicker sketch lines so when I export as SVG file the sketch has a wide line. Simple rectangle with rounded corners design.
Background.
I need to produce some svg drawings of simple rectangles with rounded corners to add to the surface of objects in prusaslicer to embed colour lined rectangles on surface of some objects. I’ve got the pruserslicer and printing part worked out and it does that beautifully.
My issue is in actually drawing the rectangles with thicker lines at high quality. My sole problem is the lines are too thin.
I’d like to export thick lines if I can. Simply offsetting lines and extruding the gap doesn’t work as the svg file exports only the lines and leaves the extrusion behind.
Apart from drawing multiple offsets really close together is there a simple way to thicken the line or fill in the offset gap at a 2d level?
Speaking of 2d sketching, I tried to get into 2d drawing part of shapr3d but I can’t find any understandable explanations of how to do and use 2d drawings and I am thinking that my interpretation of 2d and shapr3d idea of 2d drawings might be different.
Any advice on this?
John Martin
https://support.shapr3d.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
If you are creating simple boxes doing it in Shapr3d might be bit overkill.
You could open your svg in an art program like Illustrator or Inkscape (free) and add stroke thickness if the 2d drawing is just for visual purposes.
When you add your stroke you will have option of the thickness depth, if you want the stroke to be in the middle, inner or outer.
Unfortunately there’s random incompatibilities with just about every drawing app I tried (including Inkscape ) and prusaslicer. And doing some googling this seems to be a common problem. lots of same advice you gave with just as may answers saying thanks but doesn’t work. Good to know it’s not just me 
Prusaslicer is weird. I got it to accept SVGs from Inkscape and to work a couple of times and then it crashed and now all diagrams from Inkscape won’t load into prusaslicer. Forget the actual message but it says something like the trace path is corrupted or can’t be found. Even simple rectangles drawn in windows paint etc then converted in various on line svg converters do the same. Some worked once then won’t. Some won’t work from the get go.
Secondly I want smooth rounded corners to the rectangles. But pretty much every other drawing app produces chunky pixilated curves at the corners of the rectangle.
Suffice to say when I tried them with shapr3d the curves are very smooth, the SVG files are uncorrupted and work every time. and Prusa accepts them every time. Only issue is the thinness of the lines.
Not a huge drama. I just have been offsetting 0.1 mm and repeat 4 or 5 times.
Wait? How are you creating the SVG with Shapr and exporting it and in Prusa it’s not pixelated looking?
Or are you just creating a high res STL?
Are you talking about this?
This is done by Prusa slicer or limitation of Prusa slicer dealing with SVGs.
