Inkscape to OpenSCAD converter

UPDATED - paths2openscad-3.zip
UPDATED - paths2openscad-2.zip
See Thing 25036 for version 2 and 3
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25036

This Thing is an Inkscape extension to export Inkscape paths to OpenSCAD. There has been at least one prior Thing attempting this, Thing #9376. However, it only handled a small subset of SVG. This extension handles SVG arcs, clones, circles, ellipses, groups, lines, paths, polygons, polylines, rects, and splines. It also follows document transforms as well as viewports. Either an entire document or just the selected portions of a document are processed.

SVG text must first be converted to a path within Inkscape using Inkscape's "Path > Object to Path" menu item.

Note that another approach to importing SVG into OpenSCAD is to save the SVG to DXF from within Inkscape. Then use OpenSCAD's import() function to import the DXF. [Older versions of OpenSCAD used import_dxf().]

Much of the core code in this extension is derived from wor