I'm going to start experimenting with printing directly from Inkscape to make this easier. I think inkscape and coreldraw both need to support defining the px unit size (DPI). Unfortunately, if you modify this in inkscape and write it back out, inkscape will not save this information the same way (reverting to its 90 DPI px units). This is because coreldraw assigns explicit units in the drawing size and the drawing's viewport, which inkscape handles on import correctly. The interesting thing about this process is that if you do the final coreldraw saving as SVG, that file can be opened by inkscape and the objects will remain the same size (no scaling required in this case). At one point I tried writing an Inkscape extension to do these transformations, but didn't know enough about the SVG format or Inkscape's/CorelDraw's peculiarities. I use this process with CorelDraw X5 and X6, driving Universal Laser Systems or Trotec laser engravers for engraving and cutting. Make the paper size the same size as the material you will be cutting from. I name these drawing-plain-corel.svg or drawing-plain.cdr. Step 1: Start With a Drawing in Inventor Create a drawing in Autodesk Inventor. Ensure other lines are appropriate width. * Now go through and select the vector lines, and set to "hairline" width. Select all objects, and uniformly scale by 96/90, or 106.666% * Because CorelDraw uses an internal px density of 96 DPI, the shapes you just imported will be (1 - 90/96) or 6.25% too small. * In document settings, set the page size accordingly, and move the objects to be on the page. Start CorelDraw, and import the drawing-plain.svg. * Inkscape saves all SVG files in units of px, with 90 px per inch. * Close the file without saving the original. Save a copy as Plain SVG, drawing-plain.svg This changes circles and text to paths, which CorelDraw doesn't import correctly. * Select all objects, and Convert-to-Paths. Don't worry about line widths too much here. * Make all the vector art, and color according to your engraver's driver settings. Note that I mostly do vector drawings, so gradients, fills, extra bitmaps, etc may or may not work with this. I do most of my laser cutter/engraver designs in inkscape, and convert them to coreldraw manually. Oooohh, I see dollar signs with wings, lol!Īnd, piling on this old thread but with more info. It sounds like a bit of a hopeless situation, to me (and again, I'm no expert). Of course we have no idea about your relationship with this craft store (and we don't need to), but if you have a choice, I'm thinking your time might be better spent with a business who knows how to use their own equipment. Do you think they only accept JPG, because it's the only format they understand, or with which they have experience? And only on HPGL (Hewlett Packard format/machines).īut that's weird that a Laser cutter won't accept a vector format! Have you asked them about that, and explained the difference between raster and vector? I'm not very familiar with these cutter machines/technology, but it's been my understanding that they use ONLY vector formats. called Find my Laser, or if you have a Mac and face some issues, you can do a manual setup. software, or you can use it in conjunction with other design-centric software, such as CorelDRAW or Adobe. This can be resolved when sending the PDF job from CorelDraw to Trotec Job Control - the custom window can be sized as desired.ĤK monitor - for which Trotec’s JC GUI is not entirely compatible.The only thing I know of, by which Inkscape SVG can be used on cutter machines, is found in this topic: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=4987 It's fairly restrictive, in that it does not work with Windows or Mac, only on Linux. Learn more on how to use LightBurn software for your CO2 laser engraver cutting machine. Create the design in the software, leaving 2mm. I find that Rhino PDF doesn’t allow for a custom window less than 1.0 x 1.0 inches for small parts but Laser Cutter File Setup Choose a vector-based design software such as Illustrator, CorelDraw, Inkscape, etc. Check that vectors are set to hairline and correct RGB colors then print to Trotec from CorelDraw. Print the vector (or combo) job to Rhino PDF and drag the PDF file into CorelDraw. I’ve discussed the problem with Trotec support. Don’t need to actually fire up the machine and try cutting - just view the. tsf file - no vectorĬoordinates for cutting. The problem I’m seeing is printing vectors from Rhino to Trotec results in a bitmap. tsf file - which is human-readable.ĭepending on the data to be processed, this file will be a bitmap for engraving or vector coordinates for cutting or a combination of both. Greetings - Printing to Trotec from Rhino creates a Trotec ascii.
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