TAD Designer
Initial steps
First steps into TAD
Initial steps
First steps into TAD
From version 6.8.2.0 importing shapes from Inkscape is now possible. If you want to create shapes using boolean operations (add two shapes together, subtract one from another, etc) then Inkscape is quite good
Inkscape is now finally at version 1.0 (it reached this milestone after several years of development) You can download Inkscape for free from https://inkscape.org|inkscape.org It is a powerful vector editor. In future, we may provide more powerful Python scripts to be used inside Inkscape for more powerful connection with TAD.
As you may have realized, TAD actually is converting an SVG path element's data thru the clipboard into a TAD shape. So you could do the same thing from other SVG editors too. But please note that it works correctly only when you have M and L instructions in the path-data of the shape being copied. i.e. You should flatten all the curves into line segments!
Note that SVG imports are assumed to be in mm, so all the sizes would be divided by 1000 to be used in TAD Designer Lite as the latter internally stores everything in meters.
An example SVG file is included in the installation. Go to the bin subfolder of your installation and search for ExampleTADShape.svg
The same Import Shapes from System Clipboard menu command in TAD Designer Lite can be used for another type of shapes that you get from the TAD Sketcher at https://tad.in.net/goodies/tadsketcher0.5.html too (The clipboard format of those shapes are actually different from SVG, even if somewhat similar)