The first thing we do is select all of the shapes we want to combine together. The white fills I placed over these cutting lines would be ignored, and the lines underneath them would still be cut.
When it comes to cutting lines and vector engraving lines, the laser cutter will cut or engrave them anywhere they are present in the design – even if they are covered by something else. What I have done instead is place white fills over the blue lines in my design that I do not want cut out – which unfortunately would not have worked. In this case, what it has revealed is that these letters and this rectangle are not truly connected. This ‘Outline View’ reveals the true vector content of a file – and lets us know what will actually be made. However – if we change our view mode using View > Display Mode > Outline – you can see that all is not what it seems. There is a thin blue line which traces around the letters on the top, and a rectangular base on the bottom. To do this, we’ll be using two key menu commands:īefore we look at this process in greater detail, lets check out an example of shapes in Illustrator which have been combined incorrectly for laser cutting with Ponoko.Īt first glance, this looks perfect for laser cutting. Hi – this is Josh from Ponoko – and today I want to show you how to combine shapes in Inkscape for laser cutting. If you’ve watched the Illustrator video, you may experience a sense of deja vu – the main difference here in what commands to use in Inkscape, and where they can be found. Two weeks ago I posted a video tutorial for combining shapes in Illustrator for laser cutting, and I wanted to make sure that our large number of Inkscape users had the same technique available to them…
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