This is one pair of slices and the lines you can see at the bottom left are the rectangles for the slots plus some text. So each slice appears double in the SVG file, once for the top and once for the bottom. The end of a slot looks like this when you zoom in SketchUp. This means that the slice is a solid and has two faces with rectangles along and at the end of the slots. When the SliceModeler plugin creates the slices, it makes them according to the thickness you defined. Set the units to pts and enter 1 and press Return. Now scaling will also make the line thickness small too, so with the group selected, choose Fill and Stroke on the Object menu. WARNING: always rescale everything as a group, otherwise you will never get the slices to match. It should be workable and can be adjusted by rescaling later. This will normally give you a strip you can see at a reasonably useful size. Make sure the Scale proportionately box is ticked and Apply the transformation. With the group selected (check at the bottom of the screen), go to Transform on the Object menu and choose the Scale tab in the dialogue box. The small box on the right of the slice is the default paper, so you can see you need to reduce the whole set of slices. If you zoom to one of the slices you will see something like this. Use CTRL-A to select them all and you will see a message at the base of the screen showing that the group is loaded.īy various use of the zoom tool you can see them all or just one.įor example, I suggest you make sure the group is selected, then use the Zoom to drawing button. When you use this method, you may not be able to see the slices, because they are large. Using Import preserves your default paper size and groups all the slices. (Note you can use Open File, but this causes more work later on. The strip is a double set of slices plus some other junk, for reasons I will explain in a minute. You will see the slices in a long strip of the slices in a group. Use Import file on the File menu to load the SVG. You don’t need to tick any of the boxes to export and follow the steps below. Version 0.99 causes problems in that the drawing is invisible and the tools to change their properties do not seem to work. NOTE: If you use the FlightofIdeas SVG export plugin, then it is recommended that you use version 0.92 or earlier. Select them all and use the SVG export plugin to create the file. The slices from a simple model look like this using the top view in SketchUp with the 3D model hidden. Other means of producing the output (like laser cutting) will work in a similar way. Since I work on card and cut out by hand, I will describe how to work with Inkscape to process the SVG file for this purpose. In the posts on creating Sliceforms using Google SketchUp (see below), I use an SVG export to get the slices reading for printing.
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