Path

Drawings made of lines, which become solid inside Extrude.

Path
Path

A Path is a drawing made of lines, open or closed. It shows only in the viewport, as a guide or a drawing, and does not appear in the render.

Where a path comes from

  • SVG: Import an SVG with Import, or drag the file onto an empty area of the viewport. Each color of the file becomes a path, inside a group named after it. Dropped on an object, the SVG becomes a texture.
  • DWG and DXF: The drawing of an imported CAD file comes in as paths.
  • MCP: An agent can draw paths.

Text Path and Shape Path are in Add Object.

Fill

With Fill on, the closed area of the drawing gets a color. Open lines stay lines.

When one outline is inside another, Holes decides what becomes a hole:

  • Every inner curve: Every outline inside another is a hole, and an outline inside a hole is filled again. This is the default.
  • By curve direction: Depends on the direction each outline was drawn in, as in SVG.

Becoming a solid

Inside Extrude, a path becomes a solid with the chosen thickness, keeping its holes. The other modifiers also accept paths.

Properties

Path
Line
Color
Fill
Fill
  • Color: The line color.
  • Fill: Fills the closed area.
  • Color: The fill color.
  • Holes: Which inner outlines become holes.

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