Just received my Glowforge yesterday and I’m loving it.
I’m trying to engrave a name tag on some acrylic but I’m having issue getting text to come over properly for engraving. I’ve been searching for an answer but can’t seem to find one. My apologies if I’ve just missed it.
I’ve typed my text into Inkscape, converted it to a path and selected a fill. It still comes over into Glowforge as an outline. I feel like this is really simple and I’m just missing the point but I can’t seem to figure it out…
Maybe I should have hit the print button to try. When I look at the Glowforge app it appears as though it is just going to engrave an outline. I’d like it to engrave a fill as well. Is the preview misleading?
Any chance you could share a screenshot of the thing you are working on in inkscape and the glowforge user interface to see what settings you have it on?
It appears I just jumped the gun in posting here. Thank you for your quick responses! I saw under the “Add Artwork” column that the text appeared to just be an outline so my brain told me it wouldn’t be filling it… I just ran a test print (which I should have just done to begin with) and I was just wrong. Thanks again for your time!!
Hey thats what the forum is for. If you run into any more snags there are tons of posts about inkscape troubles and lots of other users that like to help.
It’s a learning curve, and I learned something new today, too!
(I’ve usually been creating the text in PaintShop/PhotoShop and “import” into my SVG to combine, or just upload separately and arrange in the GFUI (depends if something just doing once, or will do more often where I spend the time).
Many folk try to set up the vectors by having either fill with no edge or edge with no fill but any can be either. You do want to make sure the colors of both are the same if you want them in the same layer in the GFUI or both different to make sure they are not. Often I will set a bunch of small parts to engrave to arrange them so I can make sure they can be close without overlapping and then kick it to cut before hitting go.