There’s this nifty little web tool at svg2solid.rknt.de that takes your svg and turns it into a zip file containing an stl per color.

It’s important, that the colors don’t overlap or else you’ll get overlapping stls. Maybe there’s cases where you’d want that where the colors have different heights and you want the bottom and top of the printed objects to show different things. I haven’t experimented with that yet but it’s probably easier to just make 2 designs, convert each to its own set of stl files and then stack them on top of each other in the slicer software.

One logo gave me a hard time, because, for some reason, the same path would trace the outline I wanted but it would also inscribe the same shape a second time just inset from the outer perimeter and it just wouldn’t look right in the preview let alone produce a good stl. The solution was to switch to path editing and upon selecting that path, I could see the inset points, that’s the moment I understood the problem, and then I proceeded to simply delete all the inset points of this path and violà, a clean svg and thus we get a clean stl.

Simple, cool stuff and so far, people loved it, when you present them with a 3dprinted version of their company/team/club logo.