Hello,

I use Inkscape mostly to design parts and or art to cut out via Plasma table or Laser. 

I am limited in my understanding of all of Inkscape features however, I am stumped trying to resolve this.

I am working on a design for a sign and in outline everything really looks good.  I have everything just how I want it and my paths go into the program Sheetcam just fine for plasma cutting and converting to GCODE.

However, when I save as an SVG. and export it to my XCS Laser program it shows angular fill of color in places on the drawling.  So, I go back to Inkscape and switch the view display mode to normal and it shows me the same things.  Angular black fills.  But if I go to outline, it is perfect.

I tried all sorts of things to remove these fills but it just seems to make everything invisible when I do that....  messed around with it for a few hours and no luck.  

Hence, why I thought I'd reach out on here for help.

I would appreciate any insight on what is causing this and how to correct it.

Sincerely,

Mike

Can you attach the original Inkscape file and a screenshot of what it looks like in in the XCS Laser program. 

Hello and thank you for the reply.

Please find attached the XCS file and the Inkscape file.

In XCS it looks exactly like it does in Inkscape with the Normal Display mode with the "irratic" fills.

I have had this happen before so I feel it likely it is something I am doing or not doing that is causing it.

I appreciate your time to look at this.

I can't tell if the SVG is downloadable via the uploaded attachment.  It seems to just be an image file.

Anyway,

Here is a drive link to the file

Thanks,

Mike

Gilbert Range Sign 1

Are you refering to the red areas? Just select them and remove the fill color. 

Noticed the other areas. Just select them, unfill, black stroke.

Thanks for the help!

I have tried this but it erases the lines when I export the SVG. 

If you look at the file in outline display mode on Inkscape there are a lot of detail lines.  I would like them to be open pathway cuts for the laser just like they are in Inkscape.

For example many of the detail lines in the gun are no longer visible in Normal Display mode and this also translates to XCS.

I have clicked and hit the X next to fill in the bottom left of inkscape.  But it seems to eliminate the paths when I export.

Perhaps I am removing the fill wrong.

What cursor are you using to select the filled area and then what are you using to remove it?

When I hit the X next to the fill it takes the lines with it....

X = removes fill
Shift X =  removes stroke

 

I downloaded that file you provided in SVG attachment again. Was that file created by XCS and exported out as SVG? Looking at that file again, it was not created by Inkscape. There is quite a few issues with it. If you bring it into Inkscape, Inkscape will do it's best to translate that. Some of the styles I could not change by normal Inkscape methods. I literally had to use the XML editor on it. 

What I did (to hopefully fix it), is load it into Inkscape, do a save as optimized SVG, then reload it and do some style changes. 

Try this attachment

Crossing fingers!

Wow, thank you very much for the insight and your efforts.

I tried to open your file but it will only open as an image but it looks good.

I tried to do what you instructed but the same thing occurs.

The file was generated in Inkscape, however I traced the image of the gun in inkscape and then vector by vector edited it and changed the dimensions etc. so I could cut it out on my plasma table and have the metal not fall through.  I'll attach an image of what I just cut out.  I welded the stands off and hangers on it and it came out really good with perspective of it being a metal sign. All it needs now is paint and its LED's

GilbertSignCut1

As I said I am trying to use the same file to cut some wood via XCS.  I have done this in the past and not run into this but sometimes I get some weird stuff going on.  Maybe that par for the course especially at my level of experience with Inkscape.

When I select the area of the fill I want to eliminate it either highlights the whole group with the select and transform.

When I do this with the select and transform and hit X it changes the pointer to a little box to the right and below a plus sign.  What am I supposed to do next?

Before I wasn't pressing X.  I was clicking on the little X in the bottom Left corner which it seems is just making it transparent.....  

Not sure what I am missing.  

But thanks again for your help.

"I tried to open your file but it will only open as an image but it looks good."
In your browser? Just right click the image in the new browser tab/window then save. 

When I wrote:
X = removes fill
Shift X =  removes stroke

Click the X at bottom left of the Inkscape window. Not the keyboard "X".