<p>I am looking at printing a fair amount of text, ideally using some custom fonts. I quite like <a href="https://pixelify.net/download/free-fonts/script-handwritten/stay-classy-font-free/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stay Classy</a> but will likely have to consider change if it causes issues.</p>
<p>I am a little stuck on where to start with using these in some tools. I have tried creating an SVG using the font and importing to Tinkercad however that always fails. I only want to print the text, nothing else.</p>
<p>How do I properly convert my font into .svg and import that so I can make my bodies? While I have tried Tinkercad I am open to alternative tools if this can be achieved more easily.</p>

[{'answer_id': 15433, 'author': 'Trish', 'author_id': 8884, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/8884', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Fonts are not saved in a format that is .svg compatible. However, text that is written in a font and saved as a black-and-white picture can be turned into a .svg by software. This .svg can be imported by Tinkercad then.</p>\n<h1>Step 1: Text Picture</h1>\n<p>Use any software to create a .png or .jpg or something similar. Among the multitude of programs that can do this are GIMP and Adobe Photoshop. Even Paint can do this, or any word processor and then screen capture. If you know your Inkscape, you can skip this.</p>\n<h1>Step 2: making the .svg</h1>\n<p>Either you use software like <a href="https://inkscape.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Inkscape</a> to import your picture and trace the outlines, or you use a web service. For example <a href="https://convertio.co/jpg-svg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Convertino</a> or the <a href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fontquirrel Webfont generator</a>. You only need the outlines, no filling!</p>\n<p>In Inkscape the rundown to tracing is:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>File/Import</li>\n<li>Path/Trace Bitmap</li>\n<li>Update\n<ul>\n<li>OK</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h1>Step 3: Import</h1>\n<p>You got your outline .svg, so import that into any software and you can start making your embossed letters. Personally, I would use Fusion360, but most CAD software support importing an SVG and treat that the same as if you had sketched in that software.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 15435, 'author': 'Joseph Crozier', 'author_id': 15186, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/15186', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I think @Trish answered your question more specifically, but an alternate route (that I think its simpler assuming you don\'t mind the learning curve) is using Blender.</p>\n<p>Rather than creating an svg in a different software and having to go from something like photoshop to inkscape to tinkercad to your printer software...  Blender could do most of that in one step, and its free.</p>\n<p>In Blender, add text:\n<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8vXWf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8vXWf.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>\n<p>Hit tab to go into &quot;Edit&quot; mode and in edit mode you can simply backspace and type whatever you want.\n<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UdUXU.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UdUXU.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>\n<p>In the &quot;Font&quot; menu, you can choose from any font on your computer.\n<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1hkC1.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1hkC1.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a>\n<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zMbeY.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/zMbeY.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>\n<p>And you can make it &quot;3D&quot; by extruding it:\n<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SzlG0.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/SzlG0.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>\n<p>When it looks good and you\'re ready to print it, make sure to convert it to a mesh, then export as .stl for your printing software. (Cura/Slic3r/etc.)\n<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5V2yx.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5V2yx.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a>\n<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/03VPQ.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/03VPQ.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 15443, 'author': 'fred_dot_u', 'author_id': 854, 'author_profile': 'https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/users/854', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Tinkercad and Inkscape is likely the easiest method, requiring very little to learn anew. The key in Inkscape is to use Path, Object to Path, which converts the text format to &quot;ordinary&quot; vectors supported by Tinkercad.</p>\n<p>If you're comfortable with both programs, there's no reason to divert to a new package.</p>\n<p>Tossing a conversion from vector to bitmap and back to vector is going to &quot;damage&quot; the image, while the suggestion I've made will retain all detail.</p>\n"}]
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