Fortunately, Inkscape admits a lot of formats but you may need to test a little bit to get the correct output format. Basically, first, you have to import what you want on Inkscape. Using InkCut is quite simple but you have to learn a couple of tricks. I'm starting to use fabmodules but for this week's assignment I've used InkCut. So for the next one, I just went for 6' and it feels nicely stick to the neopreneĪnother interesting technique shown in the pictures is using a piece of cardboard slightly moistured with a water spray to help get the textile plain and stick to a flat surface.įor using the vinyl cutter I can use InkCut for Inkscape (Linux only plugin) or use Roland's software CutStudio. It indicates 10'' and on the first test, after 10'' the textile melted a little bit and there's residue on the Teflon sheet I'm using (not silicon paper). I've found that on this kind of textile, may need less time when applying heat on the seconds step once the support is removed cold. Anyway I was able to cut it but it wasn't as easy as with other textile vinyl and I've missed a tiny triangle. It was set at 100gf and the manufacturer specifications are 120gf. I have to confess that I didn't check the cutter plotter force before sending the design and it lacked a bit of force. I've also made two vinyl designs, one stripped and the other one solid, so I could feel how the material peeled. So later I could test the reflective vinyl on both engraved and plain textile. It had two parts to cut, one with a couple of triangles engraved, it burns the surface nicely leaving this darker colour and also a different texture. So first I made a simple design for the laser. True neoprene has chlorine so it's a big no for a CO2 laser cutter.

In the workshop, she used this 'fake neoprene' textile that works great on the laser cutter.

I was assisting her with our laser cutter on her workshop about wearables. I wanted to do something I've learned when Anastasia Pistofidou from Fab Lab Barcelona was here at LABoral during last winterLAB. Then I'm going to start showing something I've made with the laser cutter and textile vinyl.

Ok, first of all, I need to improve a little bit the week 2 page, because I realized on project reviews this Wednesday that a good thing is that I wrote the process a little bit but just put images of the results, of the renders, and only for 2D and 3D not for pixels.

Inkscape stroke to path misalignment