I am a custome woodworker, and I do a lot of celtic and viking carvings.


I am offering up a new bed using carved posts with celtic art by my wife. (her work is featured in several video games, and has been used by tattoo artists all over the world)

I first tried using the power pack 10 mesh tool to height map, but I did not like the result. So instead I used freecad 0.16 to import a SVG of my wife's work, then in part design I extruded that into a 3d shape, then converted to a solid, then refined the solid then exported as a STEP file.

Then I imported the STEP file into Viacad 10. Then selected my new imported surface and used the "extrude solid" tool and created a new ACIS solid. Then I deleted the original import and was left with a very nice usable 3d model to be attached to my shop drawings in Viacad.

Yes I know there are probably faster and better ways, but Im a beginner and I only have powerpack 10 not the pro.

I hope maybe this will help you.

That is good to know! Thanks. Like I said Im a beginner :)

IN Ver 10 of viacad on my system EPS is not an option to import. Though the manual says it is.

Since I do not own Adobe Illustrator, I used https://online-converting.com/vectorize/ to convert my svg to ai.

Then simply imported it to Viacad and extruded and created new solid.

Thanks JB

Edited by user Sunday, January 15, 2017 12:07:17 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified