Call them back and go “liar liar pants on fire”.
It may only be certified for W7 but it works on W8 and W10. I had it before I upgraded to X8 (but switched to the Education version for my wife who is a school tech specialist).
X7 H&S will do more than you need. I am always thinking that this is a tool whose capabilities exceed my reach.
Amazon had it last weekend on their deal of the day for $59 and same day free shipping. I went for it at 2:30 am Sat nite/sunday morning and it was outside my front door in less than 8 hours!!! I was amazed!! (I think Amazon has perfected the transporter - or harnessed some black hole technology !). Now to play with this Corel (CorelDraw Home & Student Suite X7).
It’s available for $50.93 with Prime right now. (For that low price, I went ahead and upgraded.)
Thanks for mentioning it…I’d have thought it would be a lot more than that. (Adobe really does overprice their stuff.)
Thanks for bringing this up - I just ordered a copy as well.
I’m glad we’re increasing the percentage of Glowforge owners who use CorelDraw. That might bump up a CorelDraw plugin a little higher in the “feature hopper”.
I bet if some of the “already laser users” made a couple of simple tutorials using CorelDraw, there might be even more people getting on the band wagon. 
I was very tempted, but, it seems to be missing some functionality that may prove important…
From the PDF document:
I don’t expect those will be big issues if your primary use will be to create designs for your Glowforge…
The Universal Laser color palette is specifically for Universal brand lasers. As I understand it, Glowforge is planning to allow you to define any color for specific types of cuts. If you want to have a dedicated color pallet, you will be able to create your own.
As for the lack of DXF/DWB export capability, there are plenty of other formats that you’ll be able to export to that the Glowforge software will read. From the FAQ:
“Glowforge is compatible with JPG, PNG, TIF, SVG, AI, DXF, PDF, and many more file formats.”
The box for X7 H&S also says that it is not intended for commercial use, so those of you that plan to use it products to sell should opt for the full version.
I saw this tutorial on photo engraving for X4, and thought it might be of help to some of you Corel users.
Nice! Thanks for the share!
Thanks for the link. I can use all of the help I can get. This is a topic that I need to learn too.
Corel has actually gotten so much better since x4. But this definitely gives you a good basis to start from
I haven’t touched corel in a decade or two, but the video seemed proper. If it is anything like AI, older tutorials still work well to guide you, even if you have to search around for where some tool or function may have been moved. What is annoying is when you find a tutorial for a version above what you have, and they use the new tools that don’t exist in your version. SMH.
Corel X8 does everything AI does without the creative cloud expense. I really like it. I finally upgraded from 12 earlier this summer.
I have been debating about whether to upgrade from X7. Later this month, I plan to buy a dye sublimation printer that’s on sale as part of a package including a discount on an X8 upgrade so I’ll probably pull the trigger at that time.
heh… except have a native mac version 
I stand corrected. All the “important things” 
(Can you tell that I’m an old school Microsoftie?)
Does anyone use eCut Designer Toolkit for CorelDRAW?
It appears to be targeted at folks who use CorelDRAW with vinyl cutters, CNC routers, and laser engraves. That sounds like some of us.
Among it’s tools are Nesting and Delete Duplicate Edges. I could see those coming in hand for laser work.
Might have to check that out…I use Corel to design for my vinyl cutter