This will result in more of the drawing being visible:īefore going any further it is worth changing the document properties to something more useful to our drawing. To change the magnification of the view click "view" on the top menu, then "Zoom" and finally "Page": When you open Inkscape for the first time you will get a screen like this:ĭepending on your screen size, you may or may not see all the drawing area. I will not cover the download and installation of Inkscape here, I am assuming this will be intuitive enough. Raster images are things like phtotgraphic images (or bitmaps) that when enlarged become blocky, whereas a vector image is made up of geometric definitions that can be zoomed in on without losing quality. Very simply it is a vector drawing program which is easier to get familiar with than typical CAD programs.įorgive me if I am being really basic here, but there are fundamentally two types of computer images: raster and vector. It is intended to be a free alternative to Adobe Illustrator. I have started this thread following comments from various people that they have difficulty getting into CAD, but would like to be able to produce artwork capable of being used with craft cutters such as the Silhoutte machines introduced so ably by JCL here:
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