To do this we can use the ellipses tool that appears as a circle on the left-hand menu. One way is to cut a pair of hanging holes into the animal file.
Making laser-cut animals is all well and good but we need some way to display our handiwork. You can see how the deer ended up after the alterations in the image on the right above. Even if you could no longer see the lines in Inkscape they would still be there when converted to a DXF file. This is done prior to importing the image into Inkscape because the software will perceive the image and the later cuts as separate objects. To get around this I opened the image in MS paint and removed the extra lines I did not want before saving it again. Thus leaving us with several separate parts rather than one whole. If we tried to laser cut this out of Perspex some programmes do not allow you to specify those sections to cut differently because they are all part of one line. Where the image has been circled in red you can see there is a line between one section of the deer and another. This takes longer for the job to complete and can cause the Perspex to warp if enough cuts are made close together. The Double line will simply mean the laser cutter tries to cut around the piece twice, with only a slight distance from the previous cut. This is because the deer is double lined and separates the back leg and head from the body with a line. On Some of the animals, I wanted to laser cut I needed to make some changes to the image, such as the deer from the image below.
#LASERDRW 3 COMPATIBLE FORMATS FULL#
You can see the full details for downloading and installing Inkscape in our previous guide for producing a laser cut Perspex box. The Software we have used for this project was again Inkscape, LaserCut 5.3 and MS Paint. A 3mm Perspex Sheet to cut the animals from.If you are literally just starting out we have a guide on the link below that includes information on setting up your software.
Producing these Perspex animals is really very simple and great for beginners. We have used free design tools for this guide and there may be some differences between the software we have used and your own. This step by step guide shows you how you might design and make simple Perspex laser-cut animals.
In addition, we used Inkscape to sketch out a little stand so that once cut we could show off our laser cut animals in the best possible light!
#LASERDRW 3 COMPATIBLE FORMATS HOW TO#
This is a basic laser cutting guide to show you how to turn images into DXF laser files ready for your cutter.
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