Inkscape Vinyl Cutter Plugin

Another project we d like to spread awareness of is inkcut an inkscape extension that allows printing on cutters and plotters.

Inkscape vinyl cutter plugin.

Meet inkcut vinyl cutter and vectors plotter. We already reported before that with projects like egg bot and gcode we seem to be gaining a strong manufacturing community. Inkcut includes an extension for inkscape which allows the user to send graphics drawn in inkscape to a cutter plotter or engraver. After a restart of inkscape the new extension will be available.

Copy the files into the directory listed at edit preferences system. To install a new extension download and unpack the archive file. March 16 2011 7 25 p m. Some extensions may depend on other programs that will need to be installed on your computer for them to work correctly.

To learn about how to make one yourself see here. This tutorial will go over how to create drawings and text in inkscape and then create the g code file needed to run on your 3d printer or cnc machine. Inkcut was created. An free and open source application for controlling 2d plotters cutters engravers and 2d cnc machines.

Inkscape laser plug in using the inkscape laser tool plug in. Additional plugins for adobe illustrator inkscape and coreldraw. Meet inkcut vinyl cutter and vectors plotter. In case you didn t see the overview of the new laser g code creating plug in you can get the overview here.

These plug ins are automatically installed on windows during the normal installation but in case it would fail to find the correct path they are available here for manual installation. We already reported before that with projects like egg bot and gcode we seem to be gaining a strong manufacturing community.