Hello, When I export a rendered image to SVG, I lose all color. Playing around a little bit inside the resultant SVG image and was able to add a few bits and convert the image to multiple colors (gray and black)... Has anyone played around with the SVG generator to make multicolor images? I'm planning to take a poke at it and see if I can roll it in. EBo --

I've wished that there was colour output, and it kills me that the coordinate system is backwards from DXF/G-code, so I had to drop exporting it from my current project. Have the ability to control colour output would be _huge_. William

right now, the colors "black" and "gray" are hardcoded. Outputting colors instead of these would be easy. The big problem is that Render Engine for 2D stuff does not handle it. There is nothing like Manifold for 2D yet. In case , Clipper supports colors, openscad does not make use of it. On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM William F. Adams via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > I've wished that there was colour output, and it kills me that the > coordinate system is backwards from DXF/G-code, so I had to drop exporting > it from my current project. > > Have the ability to control colour output would be _huge_. > > William > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

@Guenther, my use case is for using OpenSCAD to generate sufficient output that I can set up a couple of colors to send to a laser cutter. Many laser cutter tool-chains use color to determine power settings. At the moment I write everything so that I generate an engrave file, and then a cut file. Guess I could set it up for cut=1, 2, 3, 4... so I can control the order -- ie: engrave things first, then cut1, .... EBo -- On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM Guenther Sohler via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > right now, the colors "black" and "gray" are hardcoded. > Outputting colors instead of these would be easy. > The big problem is that Render Engine for 2D stuff does not handle it. > There is nothing like Manifold for 2D yet. > In case , Clipper supports colors, openscad does not make use of it. > > > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM William F. Adams via Discuss < > discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > >> I've wished that there was colour output, and it kills me that the >> coordinate system is backwards from DXF/G-code, so I had to drop exporting >> it from my current project. >> >> Have the ability to control colour output would be _huge_. >> >> William >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >

Anyway, I'll take a little time and see if I can make this work. On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM John David <ebo.2112@gmail.com> wrote: > @Guenther, my use case is for using OpenSCAD to generate sufficient > output that I can set up a couple of colors to send to a laser cutter. Many > laser cutter tool-chains use color to determine power settings. At the > moment I write everything so that I generate an engrave file, and then a > cut file. Guess I could set it up for cut=1, 2, 3, 4... so I can control > the order -- ie: engrave things first, then cut1, .... > > EBo -- > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM Guenther Sohler via Discuss < > discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > >> right now, the colors "black" and "gray" are hardcoded. >> Outputting colors instead of these would be easy. >> The big problem is that Render Engine for 2D stuff does not handle it. >> There is nothing like Manifold for 2D yet. >> In case , Clipper supports colors, openscad does not make use of it. >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM William F. Adams via Discuss < >> discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: >> >>> I've wished that there was colour output, and it kills me that the >>> coordinate system is backwards from DXF/G-code, so I had to drop exporting >>> it from my current project. >>> >>> Have the ability to control colour output would be _huge_. >>> >>> William >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenSCAD mailing list >>> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >> >