Advanced Question How to create bases

[Thunder Chicken]

Can you share the svg file so I can try it?

It is in the zip file attached to my previous post.

 

[dgatsoulis]

It is in the zip file attached to my previous post.

Got it. Got the same error. It doesn't have a material assigned to it. Select the object and click on material properties.

Select the first material and see that the Use Nodes bar is blue:

You should be able to build it after that. It was built on my end. BTW, when you are importing the svg, which option are you using?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Got it. Got the same error. It doesn't have a material assigned to it. Select the object and click on material properties.
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Select the first material and see that the Use Nodes bar is blue:
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You should be able to build it after that. It was built on my end. BTW, when you are importing the svg, which option are you using?
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Thanks for this help. I am now getting a mesh and it is being applied to the base. I have to get the scaling sorted as it seems to be only about 0.5 meters in size, but it works.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Thanks for this help. I am now getting a mesh and it is being applied to the base. I have to get the scaling sorted as it seems to be only about 0.5 meters in size, but it works.

I'm actually back to the mesh being exported but not being read. It only contains the nodes, not the face connectivity tables. I can't get the wireframe of the airport to fill in like your example, not sure what I am missing.

 

[dgatsoulis]

I'm actually back to the mesh being exported but not being read. It only contains the nodes, not the face connectivity tables. I can't get the wireframe of the airport to fill in like your example, not sure what I am missing.

Check the last pic in my previous answer. (import->...)

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Check the last pic in my previous answer. (import->...)

I think the problem was that I did not have a fill specified in the original SVG file. That is apparently what maps as the face in the mesh.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

So now I am bouncing between Inkscape, Blender, and FreeCAD trying to get one of them to allow me to precisely scale and rotate the mesh around the drawing origin, and I can't seem to do it in any of them.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Some success, but either the mesh or the runway is mis-sized. Easy enough to draw the taxiways and aprons using Inkscape, but something went wrong with scaling the mesh and I am having a hard time verifying dimensions.

 

[LadyCroussette]

Some success, but either the mesh or the runway is mis-sized. Easy enough to draw the taxiways and aprons using Inkscape, but something went wrong with scaling the mesh and I am having a hard time verifying dimensions.

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What airport is this, btw?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

What airport is this, btw?

Mansfield Airport, a little uncontrolled airport near where I live.

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