InkscapeExtensions

At the Inkscape wiki you can find a list of Inkscape Extentions. It is good to check this out once in a while because new extentions are frequently made and added by people who miss Inkscape functions for their own use.

Here I list the extentions I installed for making drawings for the Laser cutter and the Vinyl cutter.

Tabbed Box Maker

Via de link 'Tabbed Box Maker' kun je de extentie voor de Tabbed Box Maker downloaden.

Hiermee kun je doosjes van verschillende afmetingen tekenen om bijvoorbeeld uit hout of acrilaat te snijden met de Lasersnijder. Door verschillende parameters in te vullen kun je de binnen- of buitenmaat bepalen, ook de lengte van de verbindingen en het snijverlies.

De Box Maker verschijnt onder Extenties als 'Lasertools'.

Inkcut

More information about using the CalorTransCT60 Vinyl cutter under Linux with Inkscape and the Inkcut extention you can find on this wiki under CalortransCT60 Vinyl Cutter under Linux.

Printing to plotters is not a standard feature, but there is an extension called InkCut that adds this.

This extention you can find here. Installation is just a matter of copying this extension to your ~/.config/inkscape/extensions folder (thanks Jairus!). This seems to work pretty well with this cutter!

Note: before printing, you need to change all objects to paths and ungroup all items.

Close Curves

This extention closes paths in a selection. Many fonts have 'open ends' where the nodes are not connected. When cutting fonts with a vinyl cutter, the knife will start and stop at these points and many times will leave a small piece uncut.

When using this extention on the paths of your text these nodes will fall together and 'close' the path. Then the knife of the cutter will cut fluently.

You can find the extention here.

Installation is just a matter of copying this extension to your ~/.config/inkscape/extensions folder. Extension appears at Extension->Modify path.