How to Create Connected Text – Inkscape for Laser Cutting

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Step 1: Create Some TextFirst, we need some text to work with. To create the text, select the Text Tool (keyboard shortcut: T), click somewhere on the canvas, and type your text.You can use the drop-down list on the top left to select your desired font.Step 2: Convert Text to PathNext, we need to tu

Step 1: Create Some Text

First, we need some text to work with. To create the text, select the Text Tool (keyboard shortcut: T), click somewhere on the canvas, and type your text.
You can use the drop-down list on the top left to select your desired font.

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Step 2: Convert Text to Path

Next, we need to turn the text into a path object. To do this make sure your text is selected. Your text is selected when there’s a dotted bounding box around it. (If your text is not selected, simply hover over it with your mouse and then left-click once.)

In the top menu click on Path and then select Object to Path (keyboard shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+C).

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At first, it might seem that nothing has changed, but when you look closely, you will notice two things: First you cannot select or edit the text with the Text Tool anymore. We need to switch to the Select Tool (keyboard shortcut: S).

After selecting, have a look at the info box on the bottom. You will see that the text turned into a group of objects. The number of objects depends on the length of your text because each letter turned into an individual object.

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Step 3: Ungrouping and Adding a Stroke

The next thing we need to do is to ungroup. For this either right-click on the group and select Ungroup or select the group object with the Select Tool and then click on the Ungroup Symbol (keyboard shortcut: Shift+Ctrl+G)

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Now we add a stroke. With the letters still selected, hold Shift on your keyboard and click on one of the colors in the color palette at the bottom of the screen. This adds an outline in your chosen color around each letter.

You can change the width of the stroke by clicking on the number next to the stroke color on the bottom left of the screen. This will open up the Fill and Stroke menu on the right side. There you can edit the number in the Width field.

With the stroke added, you can now clearly see that each letter is an individual object.

In the image above I also zoomed into an area where some manual editing is necessary to make the text completely connected because the “p” does not connect to the “l”. You can zoom in Inkscape by pressing + (zoom in) or (zoom out).

Step 4: Add missing connections

To add the missing connection, we will draw a short line. Grab the Bezier (Pen) Tool (keyboard shortcut: B). Click somewhere in the “p” to set the first anchor point, then click into the “l” to set the second anchor point. Right-click to finish the line.

TIPP: When you hold down the left mouse button and then drag your mouse while setting the second anchor point, you can create a curved line.

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You can edit the anchor points with the Nodes Tool (keyboard shortcut: N). To change the position of a point simply click it and drag it around. You can also click and drag the line itself to change its shape.

With the line selected, set the stroke width to a value that fits with the rest of the font.

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Step 5: Stroke to Path

Before the final step, we need to turn the stroke of our line into a path. This is done by selecting the line and then going to Path > Stroke to Path (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+C)

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After the transformation the line is a filled shape.

Step 6: Merging everything together

For the final step, first select everything by either using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A or by using the Select Tool and dragging a rectangle around all objects.

Then in the top menu select Path > Union (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+ +). This turns your text into one connected shape. You can remove the fill color by clicking the white field with the red x in the color pallet.

Your text is now ready for laser cutting.

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