STL to SVG for laser cutting! Tinkercad & Inkscape in Minutes

Have a glorious day and keep Tinkering! I love free tools and simple solutions. Today we take an STL and convert it to a SVG in just a few minutes. Simple, slick and the end result is pretty cool.

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[NickSpirov]

Thank you so much! The first 50 secs taught me what I needed 😃 TinkerCAD - export.

[heliophial]

Thanks for making this. Fast, focused, and informative.

[routabegga]

Thank you, this worked perfectly for me and the node simplification made it easier to work with

[badger-nc]

Thank-you for this, finally someone who gets straight to the point and explains exactly what to do, i will definity be subbing to your channel.

[Wim_Snor]

Thank you. I was looking for this tutorial for days.... Since I'm a total beginner with Inkscape there was a steap learning curve for me, but I found all the menu's after some tinkering and it worked out great. Thanks, Im gonna use this a lot!

[erinbrabant-stemfaculty]

I noticed that you need to be sure that the shape in TinkerCAD needs to be pulled underneath the plane of the workspace or it will not appear on the .svg file that you drop into Inkscape.

[olwo]

I guess the cutter should be calibrated as the crab is a little to "high" on the wood.

[philipboone]

this is NOT an "STL" to SVG conversion how to video... this is an "SVG" to Laser Cutter Video.