[Noisebridge-discuss] Laser Cutter Here

[Felipe Sanches]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Corey McGuire <coreyfro at coreyfro.com>wrote:

>
> The reason Corel Draw is recommended is because it has a "hair line" (or
> some such) description of 0.01" lines (vector/cutting) which makes the
> operation a bit more intuitive.  In Inkscape, if one scales an object after
> assigning a value to the line width, it may scale the line width as well.
>
>
Inkscape can be setup so that it does not change line width when you scale
an object. It is trivial to setup since this option has a button in the main
toolbar.

The guys in Metalab (Vienna hackerspace) developed a free-software CUPS
driver for their EPILOG laser cutter so that it can be used without having
to rely on proprietary sotware.

Felipe Sanches (biased: Inkscape developer)
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