Converting Any Image Into A STL Model For 3D Printing

okay so today i'm going to be showing you guys how to convert any svg file into an stl i'll go ahead and supply all the links in the description below so you can go ahead and check them out but let me go ahead and walk you through this so the first thing you're gonna need to do is search up an svg image for my case i'll go ahead and look up uh let's just say a mustang gt svg and you can grab any image by the way it doesn't have to be an svg necessarily so right now i'm just looking for a good image to use but we'll just go with this one right here so i'm gonna go ahead and open the image i'm gonna go ahead right click on that if i can right click on this having a hard time what i'm gonna go ahead and do is just save it by taking a snapshot of it so go ahead and do it like that and call it gt mustang save that now the next thing that you're gonna have to do open up photoshop if you have photoshop if you have any kind of other imaging software to manipulate the image i would go ahead and just follow the same ideas and principles that i'm going to be using right here so what i'm going to go ahead and do is load the image got to convert it into a smart object go ahead and say yes you gotta take the wand you basically gotta delete the background so that the main image is just the object you're gonna be printing so you take the trim make a copy and that copy you're gonna go ahead go to blending options you're gonna go to color overlay and you're gonna make it completely black and so these two things right here are going to be our layers for when we create the stl file so we're going to do go ahead and quick export as a png go ahead and save it to my downloads file gt mustang i'll call it the prep file and so what you're going to need to go ahead and do is go to svg converter i'll go ahead and provide the link so that way you can get there easier i'll go ahead and choose my file download upload my prep file uh specs threshold i usually put at eight so that way i get a clean processed image let's go ahead and processing right now and i'll go ahead and download that file so i could go ahead and keep that what you're going to need to do is go ahead and go over to tinkercad.com [Music] if you're not registered with them go ahead and create a free account what you're going to do is create a new design you're going to import the svg file that you just downloaded i'm going to click on art scale it down a lot so that way it can fit really nice and neat import okay so now i have my two main parts my two layers for the file that i'm going to create the stl file so what you want to do you get a better view of this what i do is i go ahead and copy and paste it i take one of these cubes right here which this cube is basically going to do is it's going to cut the model and so i make another copy because i want to delete this part off of this side so right here i'm going to go up to here and group that i'm gonna go ahead and group this right here and now i got my two files that are split i'm gonna give this a color just for the look there we are give this a little bit more depth do that make this a little bit smaller for the trim what i'll go ahead and do is click right here this allows me to select the plane i'm going to select the plane on top of the base file i'm going to click i'm gonna press the f key on my keyboard now i'm sorry the d the d on the keyboard which will bring this file up to this plane so i'm gonna go ahead and click on both of them and what you do is you have this little bar right up here the line and what you're going to do is you're going to line them centered that way you get the clean look and so right there i got my new svg file ready for use just converted from an stl i'm sorry converted from svg file this stl

Channel: CES_3D

Views: 27,196

Keywords: svg to stl, convert svg to stl, 3d printing, 3d modeling, photoshop

Id: f7ZW33i2qeA

Length: 5min 8sec (308 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 25 2022