How To Use Inkscape For Laser Engraving

How to setup a file that our light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation tin work with?

Choose the size of the fabric you want to use. The file contains the margins and colors you can use. (right mouse button -> Save link as..)

Cutting

These are the outlines of the shape you lot desire to cutting. They consist of paths or shapes.
Snijlijnen in RGB Rood
The stroke weight has to be 0.01 mm and the color RGB scarlet. Make sure the colour model is RGB.

Vector engraving

This is the aforementioned equally for cut. The cut is not through and through. This leaves a drawing on the cloth.

The stroke weight is also 0.01 mm. The color is RGB blue which is also available in the default swatches.

Raster engraving

All fills are engraved. By using shades of grey you lot tin can control the density of the engraving. On boilerplate low-cal grey (RGB – 230,230,230) is the shallowest and black the densest. All shades of grey in between brand a difference in density. Gradients tin can also be used and are treated the same way past the machine.

Images

The laser cutter can interpret raster images for engraving without any problems. Color images are being converted to a greyscale image via dithering. The density control is exactly the same as with fills. White is not engraved, low-cal grayness is the shallowest and black the densest.

Rasterized images to Vector images

Rasterized or bitmap images can simply be engraved. If you want to cut or vector engrave them, you need to convert these images (JPEG,BMP, PNG, etc.) to vector line drawings.
This is quite easy with Inkscape. Select the image and click 'Trace Bitmap'.

The lines are now paths and can be used by the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation cutter.

Attention!: The original bitmap paradigm is still behind your line drawing. Remove it before emailing the file to us.

Text

Information technology is possible to cut or engrave text. The only affair y'all need to practice is catechumen it to outlines. This fashion the font is converted to paths and will keep its appearance.

Attention!: Do this step in the stop of the process because yous cannot change the text later this step.
Cutting lines have to be RGB carmine with a stroke weight of 0.01mm without whatever make full. Vector engraving lines take to exist RGB blue with a stroke weight of 0.01mm without any fill. Engraving tin be washed by not using a stroke and only use a greyscale to blackness fill. For more details meet the cutting or engraving part of this tutorial.

Order

The light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation cutter optimizes the cutting procedure. It is not necessary to manually give in the order in which the machine engraves or cuts. It automatically first cuts the smallest parts and works its way to the bigger parts.
Information technology is possible to have more command over the cutting order when something has to be engraved at different depths for example. Call up to simply employ this in extraordinary cases. The cutter works in the following order:

Desc.	Black	Cerise	Green	Yellow	BLUE	MAGENTA	CYAN	ORANGE
RGB	0-0-0	255-0-0	0-255-0	255-255-0	0-0-255	255-0-255	0-255-255	255-128-0

For case, blackness is deep engraving, cherry-red is shallow engraving, xanthous are the inner cut lines and blue the outer cutting lines.

Double Lines

It'southward possible your cartoon consist of double lines after tracing an image. They lie on top of each other and are hard to notice. These lines look darker than single lines. Delete one line to see whether there is some other 1 underneath. If this is case you also need to delete the rest. Double lines have longer to cut, toll twice as much, leave a bigger burn mark on the edges and damage the cutting table. So delight cheque this to be sure the material is non cutting twice.

A more common problem is shapes that take one shared side. For instance two rectangles that are drawn against each other. This is also cutting twice and results in a lower level of precision and bigger fire marks.
It can be stock-still by following the upcoming steps.
Select one object. Click on Path -> Object to path

Use the edit paths by node tool to select i of the corners of the shared line. Click 'interruption path at selected nodes'. Repeat this step for the other corner also.'suspension path at selected nodes' knop. Herhaal deze stap voor het andere hoekpunt van de lijn.

Now you tin can select the line. The corners of the line have a yellow glow. Press delete once to delete the line.

Repeat this process until all shared lines are removed.

Save File

To prevent issues with versions you lot accept to save the file as an EPS file.
File -> Relieve Equally…

Y'all tin keep the original settings. If you used rasterization, please put it on 150DPI to make sure images stay crisp.

Congratulations! Your file is ready for cut. Send your file to info@like shooting fish in a barrel-light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.nl to get a quote past email.