Welcome to the Onshape forum! Ask questions and join in the discussions about everything Onshape. Looking for a certain topic? Check out the categories filter or use Search (upper right). Need support? Ask a question to our Community Support category. Please submit support tickets for bugs but you can request improvements in the Product Feedback category . Be respectful, on topic and if you see a problem, Flag it. If you would like to contact our Community Manager personally, feel free to send a private message or an email . Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 November 2017 Answer ✓ Hi @Luke_Chase , There are instructions here about getting your image into a part studio: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/sketch-image.htm Basically you're going to want to upload the image to your Onshape document, start a sketch, and click the "Insert Image" button (which looks like a mountain with an arrow pointing at it. It may be hiding behind the "Import DXF button"): We don't currently support the SVG format for this, try converting to PNG. We'll have that help page updated soon to say which formats are accepted! Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team 5 Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 November 2017 Answer ✓ Hi @Luke_Chase , There are instructions here about getting your image into a part studio: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/sketch-image.htm Basically you're going to want to upload the image to your Onshape document, start a sketch, and click the "Insert Image" button (which looks like a mountain with an arrow pointing at it. It may be hiding behind the "Import DXF button"): We don't currently support the SVG format for this, try converting to PNG. We'll have that help page updated soon to say which formats are accepted! Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team 5 kevin_o_toole_1 Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 565 November 2017 Also, if you want to import the SVG as sketch lines (rather than an image), you can convert to DXF and insert that. 2 famadorian Member Posts: 390 ✭✭✭ January 2019 Will SVG be supported? It's not like we don't have the math for it. 3 MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,064 ✭✭✭✭✭ January 2019 You can try converting it to dxf/dwg and then importing it mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts IR for AS/NZS 1100 0 brucebartlett Member, OS Professional, Mentor, User Group Leader Posts: 2,150 PRO January 2019 mbartlett21 said: You can try converting it to dxf/dwg and then importing it Yes can be done but a direct Onshaope import would be very handy. Engineer ı Product Designer ı Onshape Consulting Partner Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977 7 place_high Member Posts: 5 ✭ October 2023 The online converters all suck, they always mess up part of the graph. Plus DXF are really not popular to export to for typical 2d software, and by default cannot be previewed on Mac/Windows. Can you add direct SVG support? 1 maruel Member Posts: 3 ✭ December 2023 I used Inkscape successfully to do the conversion. It is a free open source software. In Inkscape, Open the SVG "Save As" with format "Desktop Cutting Plotter (AutoCAD DXF R14) (*.dxf)", then chose "mm" as Base unit and "UTF-8" as Character Encoding. In OnShape, create a Sketch "Insert a DXF or DWG file" Click "Import..." and select your file. You should be good to go from there! 1 In Inkscape, Open the SVG "Save As" with format "Desktop Cutting Plotter (AutoCAD DXF R14) (*.dxf)", then chose "mm" as Base unit and "UTF-8" as Character Encoding. In OnShape, create a Sketch "Insert a DXF or DWG file" Click "Import..." and select your file. corey_mcguire Member Posts: 5 ✭✭ March 2024 No one doubts that a powerful intermediate program is a useful workflow. We are all saying it is an unnecessary workflow. SVG should be supported natively. I love Inkscape, but inserting it in this workflow is unnecessary. SVG is a 23yo format. maruel said: I used Inkscape successfully to do the conversion. It is a free open source software. In Inkscape, Open the SVG "Save As" with format "Desktop Cutting Plotter (AutoCAD DXF R14) (*.dxf)", then chose "mm" as Base unit and "UTF-8" as Character Encoding. In OnShape, create a Sketch "Insert a DXF or DWG file" Click "Import..." and select your file. You should be good to go from there! 2

In Inkscape, Open the SVG "Save As" with format "Desktop Cutting Plotter (AutoCAD DXF R14) (*.dxf)", then chose "mm" as Base unit and "UTF-8" as Character Encoding. In OnShape, create a Sketch "Insert a DXF or DWG file" Click "Import..." and select your file. robert_scott_jr_ Member Posts: 923 ✭✭✭ March 2024 Inkscape also has different file formats available via Export. - Scotty 0 liz_eidsness Member Posts: 2 ✭ October 2024 in case anyone finds this later - I too found this frustrating, but found another post with a different angle that helped me. Creating a sketch from a face, with edges imported — Onshape I import my dxf into new sketch. In my case it's an outline of a shape, so it has a face, but none of the points are connected (all blue). Save this. Create a second sketch. I'm a newbie so i had to search for it, but select "Use" tool. and pick the face of the first sketch. After some time, the face, and properly coincident points are nice and black in second sketch. Happy dance - it's the little things. Hope it helps someone. 0 in case anyone finds this later - I too found this frustrating, but found another post with a different angle that helped me. Creating a sketch from a face, with edges imported — Onshape I import my dxf into new sketch. In my case it's an outline of a shape, so it has a face, but none of the points are connected (all blue). Save this. Create a second sketch. I'm a newbie so i had to search for it, but select "Use" tool. and pick the face of the first sketch. After some time, the face, and properly coincident points are nice and black in second sketch. Happy dance - it's the little things. Hope it helps someone. martin_kopplow Member Posts: 1,627 PRO October 2024 So you based a new sketch on the old one to get all points black, but what if you move one of the blue points in the older sketch? Wouldn't that still destroy your model? 0 So you based a new sketch on the old one to get all points black, but what if you move one of the blue points in the older sketch? Wouldn't that still destroy your model? jelte_steur_info Member Posts: 682 PRO October 2024 Please upvote this improvement request: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/19039/import-other-vector-files-like-svg 4 Please upvote this improvement request: 10.1K Community Support 213 New in Onshape 305 Learning Center 250 Education Community