<br clear="all">I wish it had the little measuring tape like Sketchup. Or that feature where you make a line then punch in a number for the length of the line.... And the snap to objects behavior....<div><div><div><div><br>
</div><div>I'm going to try both Inkscape and the Sketchup to Inkscape conversion and see which one gels first.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Andrew O'Malley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aomalley@gmail.com">aomalley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
+1 for Inkscape, a nice, free vector program. Bit of a learning curve,<br>
but it's what I've been using for all my laser'ing.<br>
<br>
ao.<br>
<br>
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> I don't think the machine minds but if you are using a system such as<br>
> Photoshop the problem will be more at your end.<br>
><br>
> For instance if you made a circle that was 1" and the .001" line width and<br>
> then changed it to a 3" circle by stretching it you'd have a couple of<br>
> issues. One is that you'd be scaling the line width. The second is that the<br>
> raster would scale up into a lower res circle.<br>
><br>
> With a vector based system you can change the size of the circle and the<br>
> line thickness more independently. .<br>
><br>
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