It’s free. Draw Freely | Inkscape
1 Like
When I highlight the whole object, which is a complete vector, then I right click to give me that little drop down menu, the option to delete is at the top. When I click on that and delete the completely selected vector, the vector will delete out all of the nodes except usually 2 or three of the nodes. It will not completely delete the selected vector grouping. I don’t know why and that has caused me many more hours of coming up with cleaver ways to use or move these vectors out of the way. I either have to incorporate the smaller vector into my design, or I have to move it far away from my design and completely ungroup everything so these groupings are not included in the toolpathing process.
Thank you so much. I will check into Inkscape for drawing design software. This has been one of my hardest parts about designing is finding a program that can support better designing that I am not fighting with so much.
Selected as an object, not as a series of nodes in Node Edit mode.
In addition to Inkscape (which I use quite a bit), I will note that Serif’s Affinity Designer is an incredible value, and quite a nice drawing program:
If you’re on a Mac, then Cenon is worth looking into:
the drawing portion is free/opensource (though they provide an optional printed manual at a nominal charge).
So you are saying that I can be in design mode and left click the complete vector and when it is lit up red, I can right click and get an option to delete the complete part?
If it is selected then just hit the delete key.
1 Like
Not right-click, but just delete with the delete key, or ctrl-x to remove it from the drawing area and copy it into memory.
Duh, makes sense. What about adding vectors in CC Pro? How does one add vectors, as in a new grouping to be added to the picture being designed, so I can create more detail if I wanted to? I know this stuff I am asking is elementary stuff, but sometimes just the littlest things can be missed or escape me here. thanks for your help.
Just draw it in using the Curve (or other) tool — then you can add it to another group if desired (or ungroup the other group, then re-group).
That said, the drawing concepts in Carbide Create are much like those of other vector drawing tools, so what you have learned will transfer/be useful for other tools.
Duh, Sorry had a brain fart there on that one. Been doing a ton of designing work on this last project. My brain feels like mush sometimes now.
This is a first time run thru of the design carving that I made. It has a few mistakes that I have already addressed and will cut again. But, all in all I am happy with the new design.
5 Likes
I can see the passion that drives you will carry over just fine when you learn another way to capture the designs. You now know a lot the questions that you will re-ask yourself as you try another app.
1 Like
I save reflexively like twice a minute but CC used to crash on me intermittently during the save, corrupting the file in the process. Thankfully I haven’t seen this issue in the newer versions but I still push my designs to source control (GitHub) every few minutes while working. It’s great for peace of mind plus I have a full version history stored this way.
Saving progress was hard learned by my issues. I save programs but I usually save after I create toolpaths. But this time was tough because I was still in the designing stage.
This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.