exported svg had no fill in tinkercad

[cubsterky]

I made this shape with paraxial line segments and colored it in solid black with the paint bucket.  Then saved as svg and opened in tinkercad.  But the paint bucket fill in is missing in the tinkercad image (bottom attachment).  How do I fill the inside solid black in inkscape?

[brynn]

Welcome to the forum!

I'm not familiar with tinkercad.  But if it's a CAD program, I would assume it has the ability to replace the fill?

But that said, I looked at your file.  You have 20 something objects stacked all on top of each other.  I'm not sure exactly how that might have happened, but looking at the 3d image you attached, I assume it was some kind of attempt to convert that to vector?  So possibly the cad program was confused by the many stacked up objects.

Parts of the object on top looks like you might have tried to trace it with the Pen tool.  But it appears it had a shape applied to it, making the paths pointed on one end and wider on the other end.  That could have confused the cad program as well.  To use the Pen tool in default mode make sure it's in Regular Bezier mode, and that the Shape dropdown menu is set for None.  You can find those on the control bar (the first bar of icons above the horizontal ruler, which changes with each tool which is enabled)

I would suggest to focus on having just one object.....or at least one version of each object.  In some places, you have just the outline path, and other places only the fill path, and yet other places seems to be some combination of both.  So I'm not sure exactly which piece you need, in the end.

Also, it looks like you might have used the Paint Bucket tool multiple times, perhaps trying to fill up the gaps that happen, if you don't have the tool configured properly.  On the control bar look for the Grow/Shrink setting, and set it for something like 1 px.  Then using trial and error with Undo, find the best setting.  That way, you can fill the area in one click.

If you could explain a little bit about your project, we might be able to suggest a better approach, depending on your end goal.  I mean, if there's some reason for all those separate versions, possibly Inkscape can't do what you want, or possibly there's a better way to do it?

[cubsterky]

Thanks for the help. My goal is to make a solid shape to Extrude and manipulate similar to this image

[brynn]

Hhmm, I might still need a little more info.  Do I understand correctly that you want to make the solid object in Inkscape, and use tinkercad to extrude and manipulate it?  And so the JPG you attached in your first message is the solid shape?

I'm still not sure where all the stacked up objects came from, in your SVG file.  But assuming I understand what you're doing, I would suggest to use the Pen tool to trace the shape in the JPG.  Just make sure it's in regular bezier mode, and the Shape dropdown menu is set for None.

When you're drawing the shape, and setting the nodes, make sure it's one long unbroken path.  And when you come back around to the place where you started, place the mouse on top of that tiny square that you see at the beginning of the path.  When your mouse is in the right place, it will become filled with red, and get a little bigger.  Then click once to end the path.  That will insure the path is closed, and then you can fill it with a traditional vector fill (click the black chip in the palette), and not need to use the Paint Bucket tool.

I still have no idea whether tinkercad will display the black fill, but this will provide the best chance that it will.  If it doesn't show the black fill for this very basic path, then either it doesn't support it for some reason, or maybe there's a setting in tinkercad that needs to be tweaked.