Draw your 'cut' lines in red, and 'etch' lines in blue or green.I have made dozens of designs using Inkscape - and with the following precautions taken, they have all cut flawlessly on the ATXHS laser cutter. To be fair, none of these are Inkscapes' fault - but rather shortcomings in either the SVG file format, in CorelDraw or in the Laser Cutter drivers themselves. However, there are a few "gotchas" to be aware of. Since you'll need to transfer the files to the laser cutter's PC (which has a copy of CorelDraw) - this is no big deal. Hence if you want to do your design in Inkscape, you have to import the resulting SVG files into CorelDraw for lasering. Unfortunately, you can't drive the laser directly from within Inkscape because it rasterizes all of the vector data before sending it to the device. One good/cheap option is to make your drawings in SVG format from " Inkscape" which is free/OpenSourced and runs well under Windows, Mac and Linux. But because Corel Draw costs $400 for the mainstream version and $99 for the student edition - you'll probably want to do your design work in some other piece of software. We generally operate the Blue Laser Cutter from within Corel Draw.
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