I think the Glowforge has some cloud RIP capabilities, but not extensive. Your printer is essentially acting like the Glowforge in engrave mode. The equivalent would be saving your work as a PNG, JPG, EPS, TIFF, etc. The RIP software does just what the name implies, it converts your artwork to a raster. This is possible because 1) a lot of graphics are just for web use, 2) the image will be processed by RIP software just prior to printing (raster image processor). People are used to a print view of things where WYSIWYG prevails and white is not printed.īy default, these programs all default to a method known as knockout, which means an overlaying color “knocks out” the color that is beneath. Text needs to be converted to paths and “stacked” items need to be flattened. I uploaded an image where you can see all of the layers and I hid the white shape so you can see what’s going on with the actual raindrop shape.

If you want it thicker, increase the size of the stroke and then you can “expand” the stroke (or whatever the equivalent is in Inkscape). What the glowforge is going to do with that is create a cut or score (I imagine you’d want a score), which will be a thin line. All you need to do here is go into the raindrops, delete the white shape, remove the fill from the existing black shape and add an outline. On the raindrops, to make the white middle - a duplicate raindrop filled with white has been put in place.

The UI won’t process text at this time, and either way - converted to outlines you’ll be assured of WYSIWIG. Text: You’ll want to make sure that any text you have is converted to outlines, which should be an option when you save as/export to SVG. However, when I upload to the UI, it throws it way down off the bed and you spend several minutes trying to resize and bring it back up to where it needs to be.

Maybe that’s just because I opened it in Illustrator and there is a weird conversion going on. It’s showing that it’s 120' across, approx. You’ll want to scale the image down, I believe.

I’ll show you a few things that I see in the file (and sorry in advance if this makes life more difficult) I’m not an Inkscape expert, so I can’t really tell you how to accomplish any of this… I think you’re going to have some unexpected results with this - or results that may not be as clean as you want them to be.

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