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SVG → pegboard

Turn a built-in shape or your own SVG into a pegboard — outline modes, colours, holes under the artwork and how to prepare files.

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SVG → pegboard makes a pegboard in the shape of a drawing: a cloud, a tool silhouette, a logo. The artwork’s colours become inlays in the front face, and the board is sliced, joined and mounted exactly like an infinite pegboard. Included from Maker.

Artwork

SourceDefault Library: cloud

Library — a built-in collection of original shapes, searchable and grouped by category. Upload — your own .svg file (up to 2 MB). Pegboard Maker cleans it up in your browser: transforms are applied, curves are flattened into smooth outlines and fill colours are kept. Uploaded artwork is saved inside the project.

WidthDefault 420 mmRange 20–6000 mm

Width of the finished board; the height follows the artwork’s proportions. The line under it tells you the size and how many pieces it is sliced into.

Preparing your own SVG

Pegboard Maker prints filled shapes with flat colours. When you upload a file, the app tells you what it left out. Before uploading:

  • Convert strokes to shapes. Lines drawn as strokes have no area and are ignored. In Inkscape use Path → Stroke to Path; in Illustrator Object → Expand; in Affinity Layer → Expand Stroke.
  • Convert text to paths (Path → Object to Path, Type → Create Outlines). Live text is ignored.
  • Use plain fills. A gradient is replaced by its average colour and semi-transparent shapes print opaque; patterns, clipping paths, masks and embedded bitmaps are left out.
  • Keep the palette small. Every distinct colour is a filament. Two to four colours print beautifully; above sixteen the export warns you.
  • Simplify heavy files. Traced images with thousands of tiny paths are slow and noisy, and files with more than 5,000 shapes are refused — simplify them first.

Board outline

OutlineDefault Offset

Silhouette — the board is the drawing itself: its outline, with small gaps closed. Crisp, but fine details become fragile edges. Offset — the silhouette grown by the margin and rounded: smoother, sturdier and still recognisable. Rounded box — a rounded rectangle around the artwork, like a plaque: the most room for hooks, best for detailed logos and signs.

MarginDefault 10 mmRange 0–200 mm

Extra board around the artwork in Offset and Rounded box. Larger margins merge separate parts (dots, separate letters) into one board. The margin is reduced automatically if it would leave the artwork less than a quarter of the board width.

Corner radiusDefault 8 mmRange 0–200 mm

Rounds the corners of the outline and closes gaps narrower than twice this radius.

Separate parts of a drawing become separate boards. Crumbs too small to be a piece (under 400 mm²) are left out, and the app tells you how many.

Colours and holes

Colour modeDefault Artwork colours

Artwork colours inlays each fill colour of the artwork in the front face. Solid prints the board in the base colour; the artwork’s shape is still the outline.

Holes under the artworkDefault On

On puts holes everywhere, artwork included, for the most hook positions. Off keeps the picture readable, depending on the outline. With Rounded box, the whole artwork stays hole-free (plus the edge margin) and the holes fill the plaque around it. With Silhouette or Offset the drawing is the board, so only its details stay hole-free — layers painted mostly on top of other artwork, such as eyes, windows or a star on a badge — while the body of the drawing carries holes like any board.

The palette lists every colour of the artwork with the number of shapes that use it. Click a colour to change it; give two colours the same filament to merge them into one. Match my filaments snaps every colour to the closest filament of the app’s palette. Recolouring a library shape turns it into a customised copy saved with your project; the library itself is never changed.

The base colour (in the Colours tab) is the colour of the board itself: it shows wherever the artwork leaves the front face unpainted.

Board settings

Everything else — slicing into pieces, joints, wall anchors (Automatic by load, Fixed grid or Manual), separators, labels, pegboard type, panel profile, border and hole-ring paint — works exactly as in the infinite pegboard and shared settings.

As on every board, the pieces are joined by glued spline strips by default. With butt or puzzle joints, a piece that would be left without a wall anchor gets strips on its seams anyway, and the Issues tab names it (Strips the app adds). A drawing that falls apart into separate boards needs anchors on each of them: strips only join pieces of the same board.

Tips

  • Start with Offset. It turns almost any drawing into a printable outline on the first try.
  • Let the holes breathe. Thin parts of an outline can’t hold holes (every hole keeps its edge margin). If a shape ends up with few holes, make it wider, increase the margin, or switch to the Rounded box.
  • Match inlays to filaments. Use Match my filaments, or recolour the SVG to the filaments you own before uploading; the export names each colour and lists it in the README.
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