The aim is that by creating an overarching collection, the MightyScape project will help inspire the community to come together and actively maintain Inkscape plugins rather than allowing them to wither and die when forgotten by their original creators. The extensions are maintained and working, albeit with some bugs, and are intended for use with Inkscape 1.0 and above. The current MightyScape release has a whole bunch of useful stuff inside, for tasks as varied as laser cutting, 3D printing, vinyl cutting, as well as improvements on areas where Inkscape is a bit weak out of the box – like CAD, geometry and patterning. The MightyScape project aims to solve that, putting a bunch of Inkscape plugins into one useful release.

The software also has plenty of extensions floating around on the Internet, though until now, they haven’t been organised particularly well.

If you want to cut your text out, make sure there is a stroke, but no fill.Inkscape is an amazing piece of open source software, a vector graphics application that’s a million times more lightweight than comparable commercial offerings while coming in at the low, low price of free.

If you want to engrave your text, you’re all set.

Convert your text: Click and drag inside your text box to select all of your text, then choose “Path” from the menu bar and click “Object to Path.” You can’t edit your text any more, but now it will print properly.

Click anywhere on your drawing and type a message.

(You can also use Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, or many vector graphics programs.) Here’s quick instructions to use Inkscape to create prints containing text on your Glowforge.įor a detailed tutorial showing how to prepare and print a file including text, see Print 3: Make a Gift Tag from Scratch.

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