Inkscape Tutorial (Part 1/2: Beginner) For Engineers And Shaper Origin Users

As requested, here's my take on an Inkscape tutorial for engineers and Shaper Origin users. Find an overview of all mentioned topics (and additional info/links) below.
This beginner tutorial (part 1 of 2) focuses on getting your Inkscape configured correctly and explaining the most important aspects of designing. If you follow along on your own computer, you should be ready to make robust designs for your Shaper Origin, CNC mill or laser cutter by the end of this video. I hope you learn something - enjoy!

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00:00 Introduction
01:44 Shaper Origin
I might have over-edited this part - headphones recommended :)
02:53 What Are Inkscape & SVG?
03:43 Structure Of This Video And Of Part 2
04:46 Inkscape Preferences
06:49 Inkscape Document Settings
09:06 Toolbars Overview
12:41 Create & Modify Shapes
15:04 Modifying Vertices
17:12 Closed Shapes For Inside/Outside Cuts
18:47 Positioning Tools
21:17 Transformations
22:16 Object Hierarchy
23:39 Cut Type Encoding (Colors)
26:38 Working With Text
28:17 Custom Anchor (Inverness Update)
29:16 Resize Page To Selection
30:08 SVG Save Format
30:24 Concerning Your Car's Extended Warranty
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On this channel, you'll see the making-of process of my projects and hopefully get inspired to make your own cool things. Enjoy!

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[flatlander]

This is FANTASTIC. I am about half way through Part 1 and I am catching what you are throwing. I have Ver 1.2 so I have a few differences on where things are located but that is fine. What is crucial for me is seeing what icon you are clicking. I will go all the way for sure.

[pg]

Wow! I just finished a diy router build. Your contribution is awesome. Big thanks.

[christophebunn]

Great tips! I can't wait to watch Part II. The geometric bounding box setup alone was worth the price of this tutorial; I screwed up my MFT tabletop because I had it on visual :)

[douglasdahlia]

Very helpful! Hugs. I bought a Shaper Origin and have been studying sw tools for design, and you have shaved me lots of mistakes.

[colinturner]

Great Video, Very well presented and to the point. Hoping you will get some more videos out soon. 👍👍👍👍👍

[thomaaz]

thank you very much putting all this time into this, very useful, clear and well instructed!

[gga]

Thank you so much for this video series! It is late here on the east coast of the US, but I plan to watch both parts and follow along with Inkscape tomorrow.

[pctatc]

Man!!! Thank you for doing this!! This is going in my saved video list for sure!

[DavidKirk-vfvy]

Thanks for these two GREAT video clips, I find I keep coming back to review these points. I am recently retired engineer, and just finished a small DIY CNC that I am learning about all this stuff whilst doing a few projects for Christmas. I am a newbie to CNC and inkscape, so this was most helpful to me.
Any chance you could review the area selection under the inkscape gcode extensions?

[SKYLIMI]

OMG you are proud of this machine congratulations thumbs up

[johnterdik]

At 6:30 you changed Behavior > Steps > inset/outset to 0.1000 mm. In the image I see that you set the arrow keys and scale to 1.000 mm. I did the same just because it is in your video. Was this the correct action on my part?

[magnusbogucki]

Thanks for doing this! The video is brilliant.

[gregoryobukhovsky]

Hi, good tutorial, I like it. I work on my own illustrations which I created in Inkscape (they are for my book). I have couple questions, if you can explain in details following:
1. What is the difference between Inkscape SVG file and Plain SVG file which you suggested to use for saving a file? How it affect quality of images or illustrations for print.
2. For preparing SVG files for print: how "Simplify" command affects quality of images or illustrations.
Thank you.

[colincampbell]

Thanks for all the tips, I'm just wondering if there's a minimum size strike that origin can read? I recently set it very thin black stroke with black full, and the origin showed the cut as a guide line.

[lobobobo]

I'm just starting out with SVG files, and the Shaper Origin. I don't quite understand what you meant about changing the inches value under "Steps". Is it ok to set the mm to 0.1000 and then just change the drop-down to inches?

[johnterdik]

At 6:15 you selected Transforms and deselected "Scale stroke width" to ensure it used your preferred width but I don't understand how you set this width.

[MarkMorgen]

At 6:45 you use Outset and Inset to change the size of the rectangle, but the edges are no longer square, and the corners no longer sharp. I'm trying to use the Outset tool, and I'm seeing the same thing happen with objects and paths on my computer. How can I fix this so that the basic shape remains?

[johnterdik]

About 7:00 in v1.32 the Document Properties is very different.

[christophbuksnowitz]

Thanks for the professional tutorial. In my case the grid units in the document properties as well as the steps (preferences/behaviour...) can't be changed to mm from the px unit. can you help with that? many thanks in advance

[rodrigovillegas]

Muy buen tutor
como hago para instalar esta version en mi apple computador