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Fig 5

• The fill tool allows you to set the fill pattern and color of Step 5: Straight lines (Fig 6)
your object. If you set it to “no fill” it will be transparent. • Sometimes you want just a straight line to connect
If you set it to “uniform fill” it will just be one color. If to shapes or even just to separate two parts of the
you use “fountain fill” you can make a gradient of drawing. You can use the “straight line connection
colors. You can also fill with a pattern or a texture tool” for this. It Is the 14th tool on the left and it looks
or use “postscript fill” which allows for parametrized like a line with two boxes.
patterns.
• It is actually a lot more than a line drawing tool but
• The outline tool allows you to set the outline width the only thing I’ll talk about here is that it can “attach”
and color or to remove the outline altogether. For to other objects. This ensures that there are no gaps
laser etchers and other CNC machines “hairline” is between the object and the line but it also can be
an important setting as it means “vector cut”.
frustrating if you WANT there to be gaps.
Fig 6

Step 6: Making text (Fig 7) • Note that if there is no text selected then the settings
apply to future text. So you either have to do the
• The text tool (11th tool on the left, looks like the letter settings before you type anything or go back and
A) allows you to write text (see image). Once you select all your text and change the settings.
select the tool some settings appear at the top of the
page which allows you to set the font and the size and • Text is a whole tutorial by itself but I will mention just
various other attributes of the text. one thing that is important and not obvious: “convert to
curves”. If you take your text and convert it to curves
Fig 7
it stops being text (which is a special kind of object)
and becomes just shapes.
• The most useful thing about this is that you can move
your drawing to another computer that doesn’t have
all the fonts installed and your drawing will still work
because the text isn’t text and therefor no longer
requires any particular font!
• There are also various tricks you can do with a
collection of curves that don’t work on text.
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