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Jul 2, 2025
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friends welcome to frequent tutorial and
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in this tutorial we will learn how to
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convert svg file
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into the 3d solid as you can see that i
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have
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used my channel name as a svg file and i
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have successfully converted into the 3d
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solid
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it is look like a embossing
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and
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i have not did anything in this stage i
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have just converted my svg file into the
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3d solid with the help of a tool
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available in a freecad
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so we will learn from the scratch how to
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convert svg file into the 3d solids so
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before starting this tutorial if you
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have not subscribed my channel then
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please subscribe my channel and
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keep supporting me by sharing my video
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and liking my video
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my method of teaching then you can
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support me i have a qualified donation
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page
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its link is given in the video
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descriptions
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so never forget to visit it
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so let's start our tutorial so i am
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closing this file
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and i will create a new file so before
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starting i would like to explain you the
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difference about a svg image file and a
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normal image file
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svg files are the scalable vector
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graphics
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the difference between these two is
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is quite obvious
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first i will open a normal png file
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so if i open it
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my normal png file and if i zoom it so
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you can observe that its edges are
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getting blur its quality is reducing
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at the outside you can see that more you
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zoom the more reduction in a quality
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but this thing does not happen with the
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s
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svg file so
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here is the svg files
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of my channel name so
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if i zoom it
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if i zoom it and you can see that its
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quality is not
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reducing
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its sharp is it having the very sharp
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edges as we have observed in a
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normal
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png or jpg file
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so you can clearly observe the
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difference
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between a svg file and a
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normal image file
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so now
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we have a blank part
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and
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first we will
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set our workbench as a part design
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workbench
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and we will
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create a body here
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you can also select this part but this
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part work as a container
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but i would prefer to go with body
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and if you press the space bar then you
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can visible your planes
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so i will select this xy plane to
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make a plate so i will select this and
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you can also if you switch to the
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taskbar you will get the
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upcoming
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things you which you have to do for
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example if you have selected the part
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then task will automatically set you to
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create the sketch
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so i will
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i will follow the taskbar and do the
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same
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and now
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these planes are looking very weird so i
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will click on my origin and press the
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space bar
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tab on my keypad and i will hide it
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now i will draw a rectangle of 100 by 50
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so i will give this as 100
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and vertical as a 50
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now i will close my sketch
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i will close it
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and
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i will make my plate
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5 mm
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and i will say ok
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now
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i will import my svg file
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to import the svg file
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go to the file
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and click on import
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and here's the my svg file
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and i will say okay then our popup will
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come
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either you want to import as a drawing
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or as svg so i will select svg and i
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will say yes
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so if i rotate my part then my svg has
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been imported here
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if i see from the front plane so i have
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did the extrusion at upper side so what
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i will do
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i will change the direction of my
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extrusion so it will come on the surface
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okay
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so
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but the problem is that the svg we have
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imported
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is
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going outside of our plate
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so we will scale this so to scale this
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we will switch to the draft workbench
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and
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here
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if you are facing any problem with grid
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then you can easily off the grid
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and
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i will move my toolbar here
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okay
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so
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in a draft workbench you will see here
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one options
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known as a scale
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so these these are the
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individual entities
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which has been free cad
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converted from the svg file so
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here is the path one part two part three
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par part four path five six like that
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so
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we will go on the scale
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and we will select all our entities here
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and now we will enter here our inter
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point
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and we will select one point
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i would say
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0.8 yes point eight is looks very good
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so we have
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from
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one to one scale we have reduced to the
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point two
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and we will say okay
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so the here is a
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our new one part 011
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rest of the things we will select and
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press the space bar we will hide it
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now
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we will move it
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so select our path here which has been
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converted
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into a
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single block now
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so we will select move and we will
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select a point
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and
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we will approximately place on the
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center here
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so now you can see that our svg
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converted
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entity is now the center of the plate
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but still
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if i if i select this and i go to the
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part design workbench and if i try to
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extrude it i will get the error because
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it is not a sketch still
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because freecad not recognizing it as a
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sketch so we will again switch to the
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draft workbench
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and in draft workbench
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we will select this our
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whole
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entity
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previously it was unmerged now it has
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been merged so we will click on it and
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we will convert into the sketch and we
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no longer need this so we will press
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this
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select it and press space bar and we
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will hide it
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so now
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it is the sketch
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but if we again go to the part design
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workbench and if we try to extrude
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so it will not
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extrude it because
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because our sketch is outside of the
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body
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it is the not the part of the body so in
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free cad
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there is a very simple method to do this
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you just drop this select the sketch and
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drop on the body so now you will see
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that the sketch is now the part of this
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body means sketch is children and our
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body is parent previously this sketch
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was outside of the body
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now we can easily extrude it so now we
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will select our sketch and we will use
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the pad command
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and
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it will take some time depends upon the
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complexity of your svg file
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so now you can see that my converted
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sketch has been extruded so i will give
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it some dimension of 0.5 mm
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and i will say ok
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now i can give some
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color
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so what i will do i will go to my pad
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and set colors
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and i will select the faces
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and i will give some color
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so i will give this yellow
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so you can see that how
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we have successfully converted our svg
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file into the 3d solid
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in freecad this feature is very useful
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to create the name plate of the machines
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or
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but those graphics may take time depend
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upon the complexity of your svg files so
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this is all about this tutorial and if
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thank you for your valuable time
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you