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Import SVG help !!!!!

Ritchie75
Ritchie75 over 10 years ago

Hi all

 

I can't import a SVG file on EAGLE 7.4 with OS X I have this error message

"You must at least 3 point to create a polygon !!!!"

 

Any idea ?

 

Help should be great.

 

Thanks

 

 

Ritchie

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  • rachaelp
    rachaelp over 10 years ago

    Hi Ritchie,

     

    How are you importing an SVG into EAGLE? I've looked and I have no import option for this and there are no ULP in my installation in any v7 version of EAGLE that look like they would do the job. Is this a 3rd party ULP you are using? From the error message it looks like maybe something that is just a line with a start and an end point in the SVG is being interpreted as a polygon by the imported and hence it doesn't actually have enough points to draw the polygon. Where does the SVG come from? Is it exported from a drawing tool or something?

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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  • Ritchie75
    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    Hi Rachael and many thanks for your prompt reply.

     

    The ULP for SGV import is "svg2poly.ulpt" here the link enclosed :

     

    https://github.com/cmonr/Eagle-ULPs

     

    I tested this ULP because I have more prob. with OSH Park, when I upload my

    project with a logo in bmp it seems to be not recognize !!!!!! I decided to

    test with alternative SVG import but not working....I'm going to be crazy

    !!!

     

    Do you can do some tests for me please ? try to import the logo I attached

    and upload the berber fiel into a zip on OSH Park and let me know ?

     

    Here my personal mail if you want :

     

    mailto:ritchie@ritchie.fr

     

    Are you in UK ?

     

    regard and thanks by advance.

     

    Ritchie

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  • rachaelp
    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Hi Ritchie,

     

    Yes I'm in the UK. Thanks for the link to the SVG importer, that could be quite useful :-)

     

    I've not used OSH park before but I can try importing your BMP into a simple board and give it a go for you and see what happens. I see they take EAGLE .brd files directly, have you tried uploading your .brd file directly rather than using zipped gerbers?

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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  • rachaelp
    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

    Morten Leikvoll wrote on Tue, 09 August 2016 14:58

    FYI, the ULP contains some information about author and capabilities.

    Either read usage from control panel, or read the plain ULP text. Also,

    it creates a file "svg2poly.log" wich could give more info whats going

    wrong.

     

     

    Hi Morten,

     

    I found some more detailed info in the README.md on github. Basically it is

    designed to deal with the output from Inkscape and can only handle paths. I

    don't use Inkscape and don't actually need to use this ULP myself so I will

    leave it up to the OP to try out Inkscape and see if they can get their

    original svg file exported in a way which works with this ULP.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    On 09.08.2016 13:57, rachaelp wrote:

    You're welcome Ritchie.

     

    Just for completeness, I just created a really simple SVG file with a simple polygon and nothing else and the ULP also failed to work with this too so I am interested to know what SVG files this does work with and how they are created because as far as I can tell it's not working at all.

     

    Anyway, I hope you manage to move forward with your project and get your boards done ok. Let me know if you need and further help.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

     

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    FYI, the ULP contains some information about author and capabilities.

    Either read usage from control panel, or read the plain ULP text. Also,

    it creates a file "svg2poly.log" wich could give more info whats going

    wrong.

     

     

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  • rachaelp
    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    You're welcome Ritchie.

     

    Just for completeness, I just created a really simple SVG file with a simple polygon and nothing else and the ULP also failed to work with this too so I am interested to know what SVG files this does work with and how they are created because as far as I can tell it's not working at all.

     

    Anyway, I hope you manage to move forward with your project and get your boards done ok. Let me know if you need and further help.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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  • Ritchie75
    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    Hi Rachael thanks for your prompt test.

     

    Thanks for the feedback I'm not alone with this issue.

     

    See you soon my friend.

     

    Ritchie

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    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Hi Ritchie,

     

    I've just tried svg2poly.ulp with three different SVG files and I get different errors with each. It seems to have limited compatibility with actual SVG files which is a shame.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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  • Ritchie75
    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to autodeskguest

    Hi Jorge and thanks for your reply...

     

    Yes I think this a resolution image, I find a solution with lowest resolution but the prob. seems to be preview mode because once you click on "continue" you can see the logo.

     

    Anyway OSH suggest me to use .SVG format but the ULP don't works did you test this format ? if yes do you can feedback the me the results ?

     

    Thanks again for your help and regards

     

     

    Ritchie

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    On 8/7/2016 5:52 PM, rachaelp wrote:

    Hi Ritchie,

     

    Sorry for the delay getting back to you, work got in the way Friday and then I had a packed schedule this weekend.

     

    Anyway, I have just tried a simple board through OSH Park with your logo imported. It seems I can create the gerbers successfully with their CAM job and upload them and all looks ok except the bitmap logo is omitted from the preview. It doesn't give any errors, it just doesn't show up. I checked the gerbers with gerbv and the logo is showing there. So then I ran the same output data through the Eurocircuits online quote and it all appears to be fine, the logo appears correctly. So I think the issue is OSH Park. I don't know if this is the same error you were seeing but the data output from EAGLE looks fine as it works elsewhere.

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

     

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    Hi All,

     

    It might be the case that the OSHpark viewer might not be able to handle

    a high-pixel count bitmap. This was the case with gerbv a few years ago,

    I don't know if it's been corrected since.

     

    In general, for the logos you want to use the lowest resolution image

    that will give an acceptable result. The image might show up in the OSH

    park viewer if you lower it's resolution.

     

    hth,

    Jorge Garcia

     

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  • Ritchie75
    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    Hi my friend and thanks for your reply, no prob for the delay...

     

    I have the same, not preview but the logo is  on Top silkscreen, I think too the issue os the OSH Park.

     

    Second test !! Did you test the SVG IMPORT ULP ? it seems to be easy for OSH Park...for me the ULP doesn't works

     

    Very thanks to you my friend for this tests, If I can help you for something else don't hesitate.

     

    Regards

     

     

    Ritchie

     

    PS: Have you got a MSN ICQ or other chat ? we can share our tests and works image

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    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Hi Ritchie,

     

    Sorry for the delay getting back to you, work got in the way Friday and then I had a packed schedule this weekend.

     

    Anyway, I have just tried a simple board through OSH Park with your logo imported. It seems I can create the gerbers successfully with their CAM job and upload them and all looks ok except the bitmap logo is omitted from the preview. It doesn't give any errors, it just doesn't show up. I checked the gerbers with gerbv and the logo is showing there. So then I ran the same output data through the Eurocircuits online quote and it all appears to be fine, the logo appears correctly. So I think the issue is OSH Park. I don't know if this is the same error you were seeing but the data output from EAGLE looks fine as it works elsewhere.

     

    Best Regards,


    Rachael

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    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    Heard my friend take your time it's been eight days I'm on this issue !!!!!! image

     

    About the the OSH CAM I will make other test for take a look but I don't think this the reason of my issue image

     

    Thanks my friend and provided the favor can be returned image

     

    Regards and see you soon.

     

    Ritchie

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    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    Heard my friend take your time it's been eight days I'm on this issue !!!!!! image

     

    About the the OSH CAM I will make other test for take a look but I don't think this the reason of my issue image

     

    Thanks my friend and provided the favor can be returned image

     

    Regards and see you soon.

     

    Ritchie

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  • rachaelp
    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Yes I could do with a nice French wine right about now :-D

     

    I'm glad this is now working, hopefully you can now complete your project. If you need anything else let me know :-)

     

    Best Regards,

     

    Rachael

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    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Yes t'hat's fine it works !!!!!!!!

     

    It's Illustrator !!!!!!!!! image

     

    Thanks and sorry but I had a many manipulation and I didn't see the link you send me !!!

     

     

    THANKS I drinking a French wine do you want one with me image

     

    Regards my friend and sorry for the inconvenience.

     

    Ritchie

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    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    Ok ok I will try to use a ONLINE convert !

     

    Regards

     

    Ritchie

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    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Ritchie Mettens wrote:

     

    May be this my Illustrator export !!

    Yes I'm pretty sure that's EXACTLY what it is! I told you many messages ago to try the online SVG to DXF converter I linked to! image

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    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Right ok, in your first post you had said 7.4.0.

     

    However, I notice you've used Ghostscript to convert your SVG file to DXF? That is NOT what I did. Use the online converter I linked and it will work.

     

    Best Regards,


    Rachael

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    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    May be this my Illustrator export !!

     

    Do you can send your .dxf export ? I am sur it works with you.

     

    Thanks my friend and sorry for waste your time

     

     

    Ritchie

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    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    No this is 7.6 !!

     

    It's a big band at my home image

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    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to rachaelp

    Also, I notice you are using EAGLE 7.4.0 on OSX. I'm using 7.6.0 on OSX just in case that is anything to do with it.

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    rachaelp over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    Hi Ritchie,

     

    Yes that's the picture and it works fine for me, although it must be noted once converted to DXF it's just a line drawing not a full colour tiger. It also takes an age to draw. When you import the DXF does it take a long time importing? What does the script in the run script window look like?

     

    Best Regards,


    Rachael

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    Ritchie75 over 10 years ago in reply to Ritchie75

    That's this pict ?

     

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    If yes I tested with the same parameters from you AND THE PICT DOES NOT APPEAR !!!!!! imageimageimageimageimage(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:

     

    Ritchie

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