Creating wooden earrings in Inkscape with engraved designs

[hunebare22]

I’m trying to learn how to make the designs that can be engraved on wooden earrings in inkscape. I can not figure out how to cut off the part of the design that exceeds the shape of the earring that will be cut. I have try to use the combine, difference and union commands but nothing works. Can anyone help with this? thanks

[dklgood]

I think you are running into the clip path problem, but I am not sure from your description. If so, have a look at this: Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape: clipping paths and masks

You can also search the forum for “clipping path errors”.

[evansd2]

If you upload your design (or at least a screenshot if it’s not your design) and describe what you’re trying to do we can probably help.

My suspicion is that you’re dealing with broken paths or groups, which can make the boolean commands fail.

[geek2nurse]

This post might give you some ideas, even if you don’t use AD:

Cutting out rasters in Affinity Designer

This is one of my favorite tricks in AD, so I thought I would share it. Glowforge can’t handle clipping paths yet, which sometimes makes it tedious if you only want to use part of a raster image in your design. But if you have AD, it’s actually pretty easy! Here’s a sample before and after: [34%20PM] Here’s how I do it: (click triangles to expand steps)

1. Drag your raster image into your workspace.

I’m using a PNG file that I want to cut out for a t-shirt design for my granddaughter. (Not ac…