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title: FreeCAD Import SVG
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# Steps
1. First, create a new document, then select Import from the File menu, select your SVG file, and choose to import it as geometry (not as a drawing). You will get a number of objects from this import.
2. Select all the objects and go to the Draft workbench. Choose the make sketch tool, which will (if all goes well) produce multiple sketches (one from each of the objects produced during the SVG import). You can hide (or delete) all of the original import objects. Now select all the different sketches and go to the Sketcher workbench. From the Sketch menu select the merge sketches tool. You can then delete all the other sketches that were produced in the previous step.
3. Now you have a single sketch comprised mostly of bsplines with a lot (a lot) of degrees of freedom. It will not be really feasible to do much editing with that sketch, but you can extrude it in Part workbench, or apply Part Design features to this sketch quite easily in most cases.
![svg_import_example.gif](/svg_import_example.gif)