I have made a new svg in Corel Draw. Saved it as a svg, and when I go to print the file, my glowforge says I have to upload a svg, pdf, etc. But it is already a svg. I can’t get anything that I have designed the last 3 weeks to cut when it is a svg. Any ideas on what I can do?? Corel says it is a svg file
Welcome to the community. There really isn’t enough information about the file you’re describing. Perhaps if you upload it here, someone can take a look at it and can better help you.
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It won’t let me upload says it can’t determine the size of my photo.
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I use Corel with my GF and have had this issue in the past. I’m not sure what causes it, but it seemed to be in the SVG settings when you save. I’m attaching a copy of my settings in the dialog box (make sure the “DO NOT SHOW FILTER DIALOG” box is not checked when you export to SVG). You might see if your setting match, and if not, change to these and see if that helps. good luck!
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Thank you. I will try that…
Thank you!!! I got it to work!!! I used your settings and it worked perfectly!! Thank you so much!
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Great!
another odd thing that can happen…
You’re busy making your design you copy paste a few things zooming in zooming out. you end up with some odd bit of your design far away from the rest of it. well when you go to slap that sucker into your glowforge it wont’ print because your image is hanging out over the printable area.
happened to me. had a tiny little box way off to the side. about drove me nuts for a few minutes.
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I had some Corel stuff and had similar problems. To start with Corel colors by stacking shapes which few others do. This would show up as confusing in Inkscape as if the fill was turned off and you saw the design, all the covered up shapes, and parts of shapes would show up as well. Inkscape would show it correctly but the GFUI would try to cut/engrave/score each layer in full which would make a giant mess. I think you could make sure that no colors overlapped, but while most systems can have an open line, I am not sure about Corel. In addition even Gimp does not create vectors without problems so I have to go to each one in Inkscape and operate on it to become a proper Inkscape vector if it is to show up correctly in the GFUI. I would suggest that if you boolean the Corel vectors either with each a union alone or a Difference to remove the higher Corel shape from the lower one, and the clean up the lines and colors, as without attention they all turn black with no outer line. It sounds like more knowledge and effort than it is and take no exotic command in Inkscape. The goal being to have a cross section of filled and unfilled shapes like an archery target. Alternatively, you can use Combine (all in the path pulldown) to keep the lines without regard to fill but I have never tried to hand that to the GFUI,
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