Dear all member! I'm very new to design software and I'm trying to use InkScape to create some DXF files that can be cut out using a laser cutter. I'm trying to create just some basic numbers and letters, but they need to be a specific dimension(4 inches tall, 2 inches wide at widest point). I tried...

Hello everybody. I am trying to find a way to create "stick fonts" in inkscape. I'm incorporating text into some designs that I cut with my CNC machine. Right now I end up with paths around the text that end up creating an "island." Just create some text and make it a path and yo...

Hello everyone! I often end updrawing my own patterns that contain complex grouped objects in some form of repeated tiling. This quickly leads to enormous files, and frequently Inkscape crashing. My solution is generally to create the pattern in it's own file (away from anything else at all that wou...

Hello everybody. Why doesn't the perspective tool work when I do the following: 1. create my art work to be put in perspective; 2. use the rectangle tool to create a shape; 3. un-fill the rectangle and turn its stroke into a path; at this point the rectangle path is in the same state as if you creat...