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Topic: Extruding a LOGO - best tool

Hey - new to 3D Printing here - got a Cube from Cubify as a first starting point - having fun and stumbled onto this forum - pretty cool!

I am working on a new project - need to get a logo of my company into a 3D modeling program so I can create an extruded part and also a need the logo to cut away in a recieving part (want logo different color and it to sit inside another part). I am using Cubify invent right now and cant figure it out - any suggestions on the tools to do this? Open to using other tools, but not ready to learn solid works yet!

Thanks!

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Re: Extruding a LOGO - best tool

jgalinov wrote:

Hey - new to 3D Printing here - got a Cube from Cubify as a first starting point - having fun and stumbled onto this forum - pretty cool!

I am working on a new project - need to get a logo of my company into a 3D modeling program so I can create an extruded part and also a need the logo to cut away in a recieving part (want logo different color and it to sit inside another part). I am using Cubify invent right now and cant figure it out - any suggestions on the tools to do this? Open to using other tools, but not ready to learn solid works yet!

Thanks!


If you post a picture of it I can give it a try.

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Re: Extruding a LOGO - best tool

tinkercad.com is a great tool to do this easily.  Get the logo in black & white svg file, import into tinkercad and extrude the new shape to the desired height.  Download the new stl and load it into your Cubify software package for printing.

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Re: Extruding a LOGO - best tool

If the logo is a vector file the easiest way might be to open it in Inkscape and use the "Inkscape to OpenSCAD converter". From OpenSCAD you can easily export as STL.

Inkscape (free): http://inkscape.org/
Inkscape to OpenSCAD converter: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25036

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Re: Extruding a LOGO - best tool

Thanks guys - partially helpful. I was able to convery my logo to an SVG file and I brought it into Tinkercad...great for doing an STL of the positive. What I also need to know is how do I convert that logo to a 2D Sketch that I can use in Cubify Invent or some other 3D Tool to create my other part. The other part is not a simple thing - I have it drown in Cubify Invent, but I want to put the logo as a slight hole in this part so I can take the positive of the logo and press it in there...make sense?

Not married to Cubify invent here, but also don't want to spend $3k - so what tool can do this?

Thanks!!

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Re: Extruding a LOGO - best tool

Haha - ok so after some tinkering around a bit - I figured it out with Tinekercad...I bit the bullet and paid the 19.99 for a subscription - can import STL files now...took my base from Cubify Invent and imported it - used my logo to make the logo cutout! Worked great...at least in CAD - now to test out the print.

Thanks for the push in the right direction...I am still looking for a good tool that can do all this natively instead of having to use a couple different tools...so any suggestions would be great.

Thanks again!

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Re: Extruding a LOGO - best tool

you can import STL files into tinkercad without a subscription btw.  The subscription just gives you the license to use your designs in a commercial way, access to shapescripts, import other people's tinkercad designs and store more than the 1 creation at a time.

There really isn't a single application that will do everything you will need for many projects.  But there are a couple full featured ones that can take place of 2-3 smaller apps.

For instance, look how many apps are used for this scanning cleanup. 
http://vimeo.com/38764290