It loads differently on the Mac.
Opening the Inkscape program actually opens up XQuartz which then opens Inkscape.
I can let it sit there all day long and it will almost never open. Sometimes it opens on the first try. Other times I have to kill the Inkscape process and then restart it to make it appear. Other times it says that it is open but nowhere to be found on any of my 3 monitors.
What’s the sense in drawing a line that needs to be rotated, moved and scaled. 
So the shift key is already used to constrain things in the GFUI
When rotating an object shift will snap the rotation in 45 degree increments.
When you use shift with the arrow keys you move 10 increments instead of 1 increment at a time.
Nice! I just recently read about pasting into the list-of-designs view, but thought the bed view was still in the hopper… The paste operation may well work for Affinity too, though I don’t own it.
BTW, I run Inkscape on a mac with no issues. It takes about 4 seconds to appear the first time, but no issues beyond that.
Yes if you build everything with a couple of 19" horizontal Linn 11 inches apart the rest can be arrayed as needed. Then if you are using the pass through you can use that line on the bottom to cut off that bit and go to the next.
Worth linking to this thread:
Similar topic.
Thanks for the suggestions! For future reference, the Problems & Support category is the place to get them in front of the team prioritizing work. When people posts requests here, we assume they want to discuss it with other folks, not actually request it - although since I saw this, I’ll pass it along.
I run 2 monitors. Inkscape is dicey in “Extended Desktop mode” switch to Mirroring displays and see if the Inkscape window appears.
It drives me batty, but I run my two monitors in mirror mode while in Inkscape. Some Deep under the hood things need to happen in Xquartz and Inkscape to make extended desktop work I guess.
On my Macbook, copy/paste functions work fine as long as I remember to use the “control” key instead of the “command” key.
I’ve started opening it by double-clicking an SVG file instead of clicking on the program icon, even if I really want to create a new file. It starts up without a hitch and then I can just open my new file from the menu and close the one I didn’t really need open. 
I hope nobody ever really scolds. It’s just the simple matter of, as the saying goes, using the right tool for the job. The Glowforge app is, IMHO, nothing more than a glorified printer driver. You wouldn’t ask HP’s printer driver to assist you with designing anything, because that’s not what it does… it prints… that’s it. Think of the Glowforge app in that respect and you’ll (almost) never be disappointed by it.
Though, I can tell the HP (well, Canon) driver to array.
Or, print multiple copies:
But, I do agree. Design work should ideally be done in design programs. I can also drag the print around in the Canon print screen, but I don’t expect much precision when doing it.
I only said to be able to constrain the move up and down and left to right as the rotation tool… never mentioned about designing anything on it BUT… 
BUT would be nice to have only primitives sort of things like Circle, Square, and a line (line would be amazing to cut out the “Junk” part of the wood and keep the rest of it “like new” without the cut outs…
What you guys think? OBVIOUSLY not to create a design in it
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LOL… i realise that quite a long time! but it interest how things go wide! LOL
It’s always fun tho ! 
I think it feels more like a RIP than a print driver. RIPs have a fair number of processing options that are similar to, and informed by, but separate from the design process.
My RIP (Onyx) can re-size the image numerically or based on material size, can slice and split the image into panels for oversized multi-part prints, tile the image, make copies, rotate, mirror, add finishing marks, print info. This is also where you tell the printer what kind of media you are feeding it, and access color/quality/speed/post-heat settings.
My plotter software (Cutting Master 4) is also quite similar. It too can re-size, mirror, tile, copy, slice, split, auto-weld, and rotate (among other things). This is also where you tell the plotter what kind of media you are feeding it, and adjust the cut style/tool pressure/offset/speed.
I don’t design in either program, but the options available mean that I can use a single source file, regardless of how many copies I want, how I need to fit them to my media, what size they are, or if they need to be mirrored for reflective/transparent applications.
Sure. And as @jbmanning5 pointed out, printer drivers are giving some crazy amount of options these days. But I don’t want any of that to detract from my point… Expectations should be set appropriately. I will never expect the Glowforge app to become a design tool. Are there times when I don’t care about aspect and just want my job to fit a swath of material and wish I could simply drag to the edges of the material? Sure. But I stopped letting it bother me a long time ago. And maybe that’s a factor, too. Not everybody’s had their unit as long as I have. Maybe I felt differently about these things a year or so ago.
well said
I run two monitors and have found that Inkscape behaves itself well if I put the open drawing down on the bar before opening another. I do have to open it in the side screen and drag the drawing to the ,ain’t screen a lot but I keep all my tool windows on the side screen.
I keep IrfanView beneath on the side screen and the GFUI on the main screen aND pick whatever I need on the bar, sometimes Gimp is there as well and the side screen gets those tool floaters as well but I have little trouble jumping programss
