PCA Engineering Symbols Tool

About this plugin

Geometry only SVG

The main purpose of this plugin is to convert a svg into a Geometry only SVG. This means that the only relevant part of an svg is the dattribute of the path element.

What does the plugin do?

To simulate the stroke-width attribute, the plugin extends the path. To control the fill behavior of the symbol, we can set the directions of the paths and use the non-zero fill rule to fill areas. Odd-even paths will be marked as red and converted to non-zero when clicked.

Export As SVG

On action Export As SVG the plugin will remove the following attributes from the element:

1. fill-rule
2. clip-rule
3. fill
4. stroke

as all of this information will now be stored in the path attribute.

PCA Symbol Editor

This plugin is developed as a help tool for creating symbols for the PCA Symbol Editor. This editor requires the width and height of the SVG to scale consistently with a base unit of 12, i.e. only use multiples of 12px. Hence the warning that might be displayed in the Export tab. However, if you are using this plugin for another use-case, feel free to ignore this warning.