Some Tips on Vector Designing for the Glowforge

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Oh thank, you, thank you, thank you! :smile:

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I’ll be on and off the forum for the next week, but when I get back…we can tag team the CorelDraw stuff…lol

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Jules, thank you so much for collaborating with Marion on this. I’ve saved the PDF to read. Even though I use Affinity Design for Mac, many of the features/tools are pretty much the same as what you describe in AI…so I can sort of translate things from one to the other. And even though I didn’t recognize them by name, turns out I already know about embedding and linking. That works the same way in videos that I’ve created. Linked stuff can disappear in a heartbeat, leaving a big blank space in your project.

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I could be your twin on this one. Exactly the same for me.

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I’ll swap out with you guys as they come up…:relaxed: Thank you both!

The first one should be pretty general though…no translation needed. I need to start putting it together, but I’m taking the rest of the day off.*

*(Except for the Weekly Highlights once i get editing capabilities back.)

@Xabbess, you’re probably the Affinity Design expert…want to take a shot at translating into that? :wink:

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Thanks Jules…I’m honored, but so far from expert. I’ve only worked in it for a few months…and my most recent obsession was mostly with learning to use the pen tool. It’s such a relatively new program that even others here on this forum have used it only a short time…but heck…calling all Affinity Design users!

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Fantastic write up - thx! Though, I now have “Islands in the fill - that is what we are” sung by Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers running through my head! ah!

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I’m totally out of likes…ROFL! :smile:
(Used to love dancing to that song…)

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I think I will take a stab at it for Affinity, but will need to wait until this evening to do it - my ALS requires me to use voice recognition software for large amounts of text, and that doesn’t work so well when my 4 year old grandson is playing in the same room. :slight_smile:

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Thanks for taking over, Bill. I’ll look forward to what you put together.

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Bad moment to run out of likes :heart:

Thanks for all your effort, I’m gonna read it right now (before fireworks begin)

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I got the book from them and everything and barely touched it. ADD sucks to have ;D

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Go for it. I’ve purchased Affinity but yet to start using it fully.

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I got through a few chapters in the book, but then with the holidays approaching and wanting to finish up some projects, I let my self instruction with the book sit idle, though I did use Affinity a lot for my projects. I anticipate getting back into it through the rest of this winter, though. Hope you and @Tex99 can do the same. It’s a great instructional book.

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Problem is its summer in Oz so too many distractions…

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Thank @Jules for all your hard work documenting so that when our glowforges arrive we will have some insight from yours and @marmak3261 experiences! :hugs:

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Ahhhh, you’re very welcome! (Marion’s idea.) :relaxed:

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Wow, so much to learn!

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