The Inkscape software itself has many features electronic cutter users will love: built-in single line fonts, offsetting, layered tracing for image panels/shadow boxes and custom borderless pattern creation. Meaning you can combine embroidery elements and appliqué elements cut by your cutter. An example of this is Ink/Stitch for converting your Inkscape designs for electronic embroidery machines as well as realistic rendering to PDF. It comes with a whole host of extensions built-in, but even if you can’t find what you are looking for, you can always add another extension. This package is proof free doesn’t necessarily mean under-powered. If you’ve outgrown your native software, and looking for something with more features, then Inkscape might be a good place to go next if budget is an issue. This will then mean your design is transferred accurately size wise either direct to your cutter or into the native software for transferring to your machine wirelessly.ĭrawbacks: No tracing function, no shape/text warpingĪdditional Benefits: One off payment and currently on offer at half price, available on PC/Mac/iOS, can do print and cut and accurately preview designs using scans of materials/patterns. When you export to SVG, you just need to make sure everything is converted to curves, choose 96dpi, rasterise nothing and untick Set ViewBox. When you are happy, you can merge them all into one shape while still keeping a saved copy of the symbol to use for other elements of the design. This means we can quickly create patterned borders, frames and even doilies accurately. You can then go inside any of the symbols and live edit – meaning your changes will be applied to every symbol copy live as you make them. Bring in as many copies of the symbol as you like.
This means we can take a repeating element such as a flower, turn it into a symbol.
The star of the show in Affinity Designer is Symbols. You can still apply text to paths and shapes too for wordy borders, frames and sentiments. Meaning your script fonts will look even better than your normal software.
In terms of working with text, you still have all the same text tools as CanvasWorkspace etc but with a greater control over settings, glyphs and character pairs. This is great for designing projects with a range of shapes such as cogs, flowers, leaves, drops, clouds and many more. Here’s my top alternative suggestions based on your most important limitation… 1: Easiest for beginners: Affinity DesignerĪffinity Designer has the widest range of adaptable shape tools meaning many tools are capable of creating multiple styles of shapes. Some software can even export to your cutter’s native format (FCM in the case of ScanNCut). One of the most limiting factors with any cutter is its proprietary software however, this needn’t be the case with any cutter so long as it can read SVG files. Using alternative software with the ScanNCut
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