Export text or a logo as an SVG or a flat STL

A mark can leave the page as its own file: an SVG for a laser cutter or a vinyl plotter, or a flat STL of the letters alone.

Open STL Emboss

1. Add the mark

   Open a model and press “+ Text” or “+ Image”. No model at hand? The learning cube in the ? card will do: the file you are after is the mark, not the model.

2. Open the design editor

   Open the mark's tile on the panel. If you changed the design, press Use this design and open the tile again: the files are of the design that is on the model.

3. Press the download button

   While the editor is open, the download button opens a popup, “Download the selected area”, with two files: Download SVG and Download flat STL. With the relief handle above 0 %, the second reads Download relief STL.

What you get

The SVG is the shape of the mark, flat and unturned, whatever it lies on. On a curved surface with “Along the horizontal” ticked, it is the fan, the shape a flat label would need to be.

The flat STL is the mark alone, standing on z = 0, as tall as your depth, whichever way that depth points. The relief STL carries the rounded top, on a base one 0.2 mm layer thick.

Saving a file changes nothing on the model.