Saturday, December 10, 2011

Laser Cutting

This week I got to do my first laser cutting at Crash Space. I drew the design in Inskscape, then imported the SVG into Corel Draw for export to the Epilog laser cutter:



It went OK, except a line that was 5.75" in Inskcape ended up 5.25" on the laser cutter. I'm not sure if this is a scaling problem with Corel Draw import or with something else.

2 comments:

raster said...

I've had bad/no luck importing SVG files from Inkscape into CorelDraw, and end up using DXF files...

t11s said...

The Crash Space consensus is to stick with DXF or PDF or EPS, more info at the bottom here:

http://crashspace.pbworks.com/w/page/32200358/Laser