I am new to the world of laser engraving and am trying to come up with a cool project for my students. My thought is to have them make custom coasters or holiday ornaments.
I have had some success, used a basic logo and drew a circle around it. I was then able to raster engrave the logo and vector cut the circle. Problem: What I am trying to figure out how to do is create a custom shape that can be vector cut on the laser. I am trying to create is an outline of the shape of Ohio and would like to use that outline as the shape of the coaster(vector cut). I have set the color to 255(red). But, when I save it as svg, it comes out grey and will not vector cut. What am I missing?
hi and welcome to the forum. It would be helpful if you attached if the svg or a copy so we can help better. Jut making a stab at it - as I don't use a cutter (other than have used a Cricut) - is your stroke set to red? I thought the stroke has to be set, not the fill. Can you give us more details? Did you bitmap trace this, or did you draw the design, it is an svg, etc?
I have a K40 laser cutter and as Flamingolady stated the outline of the text you want to cut is set to red as a stroke selection. Please let us know what cutting machine and driver software you're using as the machine may expect some particular setting.
Yes, please share the SVG file with us. It sounds like you did not draw the Ohio shape in Inkscape, but perhaps found something on the internet. As we see from Inkscape users who get things from the internet, no one really knows what they are getting. But we can look at it and tell you what needs to be done.
Note that simply saving an imported raster image in Inkscape, as SVG does not make it a vector path. It's still a raster image. So if that's what you have, it needs to be converted to vector.
Of course you can also find vector images on the internet. And they can have surprises too. But little by little, you'll learn what you need to know, and it won't be too long before you're on your own!
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I am new to the world of laser engraving and am trying to come up with a cool project for my students. My thought is to have them make custom coasters or holiday ornaments.
I have had some success, used a basic logo and drew a circle around it. I was then able to raster engrave the logo and vector cut the circle. Problem: What I am trying to figure out how to do is create a custom shape that can be vector cut on the laser. I am trying to create is an outline of the shape of Ohio and would like to use that outline as the shape of the coaster(vector cut). I have set the color to 255(red). But, when I save it as svg, it comes out grey and will not vector cut. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance.
hi and welcome to the forum. It would be helpful if you attached if the svg or a copy so we can help better. Jut making a stab at it - as I don't use a cutter (other than have used a Cricut) - is your stroke set to red? I thought the stroke has to be set, not the fill. Can you give us more details? Did you bitmap trace this, or did you draw the design, it is an svg, etc?
Hi, I'm also very new to Inkscape, though I have some hobby experience with 3D printing, not cutting.. This Youtube video might help, it did me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFROzJCpV6c
I have a K40 laser cutter and as Flamingolady stated the outline of the text you want to cut is set to red as a stroke selection. Please let us know what cutting machine and driver software you're using as the machine may expect some particular setting.
Welcome to the forum!
Yes, please share the SVG file with us. It sounds like you did not draw the Ohio shape in Inkscape, but perhaps found something on the internet. As we see from Inkscape users who get things from the internet, no one really knows what they are getting. But we can look at it and tell you what needs to be done.
Note that simply saving an imported raster image in Inkscape, as SVG does not make it a vector path. It's still a raster image. So if that's what you have, it needs to be converted to vector.
Of course you can also find vector images on the internet. And they can have surprises too. But little by little, you'll learn what you need to know, and it won't be too long before you're on your own!