They are behind the Eggbot Project, AxiDraw, the WatercolorBot (as a joint project with Zephyrus T) just to name a few out of the many crazy and amazing projects this team has been working on. This extension developed by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories for Inkscape lets you produce interesting Hatch Fill textures for your project. In this article, we are going to introduce the Hatch Fill Extension for Inkscape by a little project demonstration! Restart Inkscape to update with the new extension.Creating texture fills for your design in a CAD software can be a time consuming sidetrack in a project.(Check Inkscape Preferences (Shift+Ctrl+P) and find your local User extensions folder specified in the System tab). py files (find the download button = arrow pointing downwards after the title). Make sure you have Inkscape v1.0 or later installed.Add a rectangle of known size manually around your design and resize the full design to that same size after importing to Silhouette Studio. If your design is larger the extension will not work. that your design will have to fit into the frame for this to work.Stroke width is ignored in Silhouette Studio. that width of stroke is included when Inkscape measure with of path.For the record – I’m using Inkscape v1.0.1, windows 10, Silhouette Studio 4.4.247ss and exporting as DXF 14 using the ROBO option. After the rectangle is added you could add nodes and blow the design up like explained in this post to avoid inaccuracies. The extension adds a rectangle matching the import size for a cutting mat and media size of 12x12in or 8x12in. I have created an Inkscape extension to easily add this frame. Set the stroke color different from the rest of your design and the frame can easily be deleted in Silhouette Studio without the need for releasing compound paths. But even better – you can define this rectangle so that the original size will be kept – no need of resizing. You can add a rectangle of a known size around your design to define the sizing and then manually resize in Silhouette Studio. The behaviour depend on the save settings for DXF and the document settings in Silhouette Studio.

When importing DXF to Silhouette Studio the design is resized to fit a certain size.

I have also created an Inkscape extension to easily add this calibration frame. Now I have figured out how to add a calibration frame around the design to get the correct scaling in Silhouette Studio when importing the DXF file. These tips will prevent inaccurate results and deformed designs in Silhouette Studio. Previously I have posted some tips on how to best convert from SVG to DXF in Inkscape.

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