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I have downloaded and used Inkscape for the first time and I think I have managed to weld two words together BUT when I look at the DXF file in RC I can see that the welds are a different colour to the main letters, is this how it should be please or have I missed out a step?
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The DXF often shows as blue and black in Robo. Select the image and change it all to black.
If you are using Inkscape, you would be better exporting the image as a .png file then changing it to .jpeg and autotrace in Robo. The quality of cut is much better and you can easily do mats as well.
ErikaP
Many thanks, I will have a go now.Quote:
Originally Posted by ErikaP
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OK changed it all to black and exported it as .png. Now here's me being thick bit, do I change the .png to .jpeg in my photo editing software and not CR :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by ErikaP
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Yes, any programme will do even paint, just open and resave as a jpeg because Robo won't work with .png files.
Erika
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Originally Posted by ErikaP
Thanks hun, just away to do that.
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I have tried honestly I have and I have searched for info BUT how do you get a .jpeg into cr. If you can point me in the right direction it will save the last tufs of hair I have :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ErikaP
I so want to cut my first welded word.
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Dee have you ordered the new Design Master? Can't be doing with all this faff of 3 different programs when DM will do welded words and mats.
Sorry, to sound like I'm on commission: I'm not! Just that I have used Inkscape several times and this, along with writing on curves, is exactly the reason I want DM.
In the Robo software go to Insert> file and browse for your jpg image.
HTH
Cass :)
You got to INSERT> FILE> then look for the folder on your computer where you save your jpeg.
Hope this helps
No I haven't, to be honest I am waiting for reports. I have just cut my first card and it's the Snow Angel from Jennie's wonderful template and I wanted to put the words Snow Angel in a script underneath but I have been doing it since last night and still not managed to do it :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen J
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Blush, blush (is there not an icon for this). I have been looking for File, Insert - I feel a real twit :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockchick
Thank you - off I go again.
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Originally Posted by nannyjan
It does, thanks. My face is very bright :(
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Hi Dee
There is an icon (at least in my 2.4 version): It is 6th in from the right: Says 'load file' when I hover the mouse over it. I've never done it the Insert > File route either: Learn something new every day! :)
Ok you lovely ladies last question on CR for today, just got to do other things :(
I have now inserted my welded words into cr and they appear as solid black writing and I think I was expecting them to just be outlines. There were a few steps back. Is this where I do something called trace?
Please, don't spend a lot of time helping me, cos you have all helped a lot and I can see I need to go back to tutorials but I so want to finish this darling card.
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Hi KarenQuote:
Originally Posted by Karen J
I have to fes I had not noticed the icon at the top, I do feel a fool.
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Yes, Dee, use autotrace (last icon on right) as Erika said higher up the page. You need to slide the threshold slider about until you get it as black and solid in the screen as possible and then click on 'paste and exit' at the bottom. It will put the cut lines over the top of your image and you need to check this is as you want it but you can resize etc as you like. Hope this helps: It was only a few days ago I was asking how autotrace worked but I have played a fair bit since then :)
It all depends on how the words looked before you exported them from Inkscape. If they were black in Inkscape they will be filled in the jpeg.
You can right click on the image in Inkscape and select the fill stroke option. That will give you a dialogue box where you can remove the fill. Alternatively right click in the bottom left of the screen, with the image selected, and choose swap fill stroke.
Re inserting files, I save the jpeg to the desktop, from there you can simply drag it to the Robo bar at the bottom of the desktop, wait for the robo window to open and just drop it into the document. Much quicker. It also means that the png and jpeg files can be easily deleted once you have finished using them.
Thanks girls.
Got to cook :( but will be back to try again later. I am sure I am not too far away from getting it right.
Will read through your replies and absorb.
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Well not much further I am afraid.
Can you help please?
I have the words in Inkscape and they look correct all nicely welded and are outlined as I expected. I saved as svg and then saved as dxf.
I tried to open the dxf in PSP to save as jpeg, I can see the words in preview but when it opens it's on the checkered background and there are just a few random turquoise bits of the lines showing.
I then tried to import the dxf file in CR and the words imported fine as outlined words BUT bits of the outline are turquoise the same as when I open the file in PSP, the rest is black.
Anyone any ideas please?
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One further question please.
Every time I close a file in Inkscape it closes the program, I use File, Close and not Quit – it just does not seem correct to me.
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OK -I think you've got a bit muddled here!
You can do export bitmap which gives you a .png file which you then open in your graphics program and save as a jpeg.
If you just need the outline:
Open a new page in RoboMaster
Click on Get outline icon on top tool bar ( green square)
In the menu window that opens File>Load image and browse until you find your jpeg
Get outline Paste and Exit.
This puts just the outline on the page for you- much less fuss than having to ungroup to take out the fill.
Or:
From Inkscape you can save as a .dxf
Open new page Robomaster and then File>LOAD dxf and that will put the outline on the page for you.
Select all group, change colour and you are ready to cut.
As Erika says this sometimes gives you a very slow cut and the export as bitmap is a better idea.
HTH
Susibi
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by the way quite a few Inkscape basics are explained in pictures in the How to tutorial in the tutorial section of the Forum.
You could leave as is and check that you have the two cutline colours set, and your Robo will cut both. But it's best to change them all to a single colour. Just select the whole of your outlined text and change the cut line colour to black. Save the file if you want, then cut!
I think if you go the inkscape to png to jpg to CR to trace route, you're probably best to keep your solid outline all the way through, as you'll need this for (auto)tracing.
Rosemary
Of course, I'm so sorry that was it, I should have read back over the posts instead of starting with what I had in my memory - what memory:(Quote:
Originally Posted by susibi
I am following a tutorial but it stops after you have formed the words and does not mention changing to jpeg.
Going to have another go but if it all looks good I won't be able to cut until tomorrow :(:(
Thanks you are kind. I don’t want to be beaten.
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Ok, thanks Rosemary off I go again.Quote:
Originally Posted by dozyrosy
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I just may have done it !!!!!
Can't wait to try tomorrow, thanks for all your help, it is appreciated.
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Well as you may know, I only do things v simply, so I just drop the letters in one by one using Text then play with them. If you do them in, say, red, you just draw round them in black to 'weld' and cut them. Did a Merry Christmas banner while having my toast this am tho have not cut it yet. Seems v straightforward tho
and I have been at this for two days :(Quote:
Originally Posted by beanpole
Aah, but its the quality that counts! Mine is just a quick one!
but it works for you! I have not reached the cutting stage as yet BUT I think I may have cracked it, shame I can't cut til tomorrow :( If it works you will hear me shouting all over the UK :lol:
It worked, I have my first welded words :lol::lol::lol:
Only just found the nerve to make the cut and although the CR made the most horrendous noises (much more than it did on my first ever cut) however, it did cut it beautifully. I am so pleased and it's thanks to you all for staying with me and offering help.
I have further questions but I will post another thread in case the replies help other people.
Thanks again.
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