{"id":875,"date":"2017-04-09T12:39:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2024-04-30T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T02:15:09","slug":"laser-draw-inkscape-extension-for-k40-laser-cutters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/laser-draw-inkscape-extension-for-k40-laser-cutters\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Draw Inkscape Extension for K40 Laser Cutters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago I wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/en\/\">Inkscape<\/a> extension that allows users to save LYZ files that are compatible with Laser Draw (LaserDRW).\u00a0 Laser Draw is the software that comes with many of the cheap chinese laser cutters.\u00a0 The Inkscape extension makes it easier for users to get consistently scaled output.\u00a0 This is especially helpful when doing multiple operations on a single work piece (i.e. raster engraving, vector engraving and cutting).<\/p>\n<p>The Inkscape Extension is free and open source (GPL).\u00a0 The extension is available for download on its web page: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/LaserDRW_extension\/laserdrw_extension.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/LaserDRW_extension\/laserdrw_extension.html\">Laser Draw Inkscape Extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwdToptD2gZucQsMrOAnFhA\">ScorchWorks YouTube Channel<\/a> there are a couple of relevant videos.\u00a0 The first video talks about the extension and goes through making a design from scratch in Inkscape.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kZaHvAZel8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second video walks through modifying an existing design for use with the Inkscape extension.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wIt9nxA0Oqg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago I wrote an Inkscape extension that allows users to save..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}