It will then be placed in the lower right hand corner of the border.įirst you start with making a rectangle somewhere within the borders of the document. This example Title Block will contain the following, Project Name, Date, Scale, and Author. The Title Block can be as simple, or complex as one wishes. This is where the editable text about the Drawing will be entered when used with FreeCAD. Entering the Width and Height sized the rectangle so it is now evenly spaced within the document boundaries. You will see that this set the lower left corner of the rectangle drawn for the border 10 up and 10 over from the lower left corner of the page. For X enter 10, for Y enter 10, for W enter 259, and for H enter 196. Using the Horizontal and Vertical coordinates of selection settings, along with the settings for Width and Height of selection, we will place the border 10 units, (px) in from the document edges. The rectangle should now show it is selected. Once this rectangle is closed, click on the Select and transform objects tool. Using the “Draw Bezier curves and straight lines” tool, and selecting the Mode “Create a sequence of paraxial line segments”, make a rectangle within the borders of the document. While not necessary, for purposes of this tutorial, it will be referenced later on. You should now have an Inkscape document that is 279px wide and 216px high. Edit the Width and Height as mentioned and insure that the Units is set to px. In Inkscape, pull down the File menu and select Document Properties You should now see the Document Properties window. The page is defined as being 279px wide and 216px high. For the purposes of this tutorial, landscape orientation will be used. If you wish for the page to be landscape orientated, those numbers would be reversed. That means if you wish to create a Drawing template for an ANSI A sized page, (letter size), which is 216mm X 279mm, our template should be sized 216px X 279px. Referring to the FreeCAD Wiki page on Drawing templates, one pixel = one millimeter.
This tutorial assumes the reader to have basic knowledge of Inkscape, and a text editor.īegin with a new document within Inkscape.
DRAWINGS INKSCAPE ART HOW TO
Next, you will see how to edit your new template and what information it needs to contain for use with FreeCAD.
DRAWINGS INKSCAPE ART PROFESSIONAL
Followed by adding some artwork to give that personal or professional touch to your work. This tutorial will begin with setting up a page in Inkscape and making a basic template drawing. While including these tags will make your template fully functional for current revisions. Having the tags for “Working space” and “Title block” included in the template does not excluded it from being used in older versions of FreeCAD. Those rules define the Working space, in X / Y coordinates, where FreeCAD may project the part and automatically avoid intrusions into the space occupied by the Title block.Īnyone designing templates to be shared, all the basic guidelines laid out in this tutorial should be followed. As of FreeCAD version 0.14, revision 2995, the Drawing Workbench will project the selected part onto the drawing template following rules set within the SVG document.
This tutorial will take you through the basic creation and modification of a SVG graphics file for use as a drawing template within FreeCAD's Drawing Workbench.