Enable snapping on the right hand side and it only snaps to boxes.

Snapping is similar to grouping, you can put a star in the corner of where the rectangle meets it automatically goes to the corner.

Generally, don't need to draw in page, you can draw anywhere.

Change layer by right clicking, move to layer.

Add layers, change the name of layers, delete layers, hide layers.

Types of Thresholds to change: Brightness cutoff & Edge detection.

Import image, right click, Trace Bitmap, embedded image, check live preview (makes it black and white), change threshold to ensure outline is clear and visible.

Colored pictures are do-able, just not always clear.

Tip: Go for outlines of images to make things easier or something black in white.

Bring in pictures into Inkskape, drag it in from google.

eraser erases the paths for lines, works with the free hand closed lines.

Outlining a letter would need to be in blue stroke (0.025 mm).

For laser cutter engravements the color needs to be black fill.

Plain line is ideal for laser (stroke needs to be 0.025 mm in width).

For example: make the stroke red to cut out shapes on laser cutter.

Additionally, stroke paint can make the stroke style bigger and change the color.

Double clicking bottom fill tab or in the right hand side tab.

The bezier curve tool to draw straight lines then curve them as necessary.

The freehand tool to draw them with a mouse or trackpad.

There are three different ways to draw lines.

Floating windows which can be docked (including Stroke and Fill, Layers, et al.).

Node handles (for creating Bezier curves).

In DaBL we use Inkscape, because it is cross platform as well as free. There are many vector-drawing applications each effectively has the same capabilities, just organized differently. These devices make it possible to fabricate much more intricate designs than devices which work with bitmaps. Why does this matter? Unlike a bitmap - which can be recreated in the real world with something like a dot-matrix printer - a vector drawing can be interpreted by a fabrication device which has xy controls and which understands equations. In actuality, vectors stored as equations for a line, defined by the xy values of each of the points.

A vector is nothing more than at least two points in 2D space, in between which a line is drawn. There is another way, however, to store image information: in the form of vectors.

Many drawing programs, including the two previously mentioned, store the image you create in bitmap form: it is made of an array of pixels, and each pixel is assigned a certain color. You may have used a digital drawing program before - perhaps MSPaint, or, for example.

Inkscape drawing polygons and fill