Design and cut your own cake toppers using Inkscape and laser cutter

[@dre5973]

I was looking for fonts for cake toppers and the website you gave is pretty nice

[@MARCAM]

I love dafont. Can spend so much time just looking at fonts on there

[@BloxFruitGaming314]

I have just got a second hand laser cutting machine LS 3020. I am having such a hard time with their program. Can you cut directly from inkscape to the laser cutter. Im so confused with it all xxx

[@MARCAM]

Just checked that model online and looks like it has ‘Ruida’ control board. This means you’ll need to either rdworks or lightburn to send files to your laser. So you can design and save them in Inkscape then open up either rdworks or lightburn and import the file. Then you can set speeds/ powers etc and send to the laser to cut/ engrave.

[@BloxFruitGaming314]

@@MARCAM thank you so so much very kind of you to reply xxx

[@MARCAM]

No worries :) hope the info helped 👍🏻

[@BloxFruitGaming314]

@@MARCAM so far so good thank you xxx

[@dafyddgould9485]

hi mate, love these toppers, what material would you recommend for this? as i would like to do a 40th Birthday Year cake topper next week

[@MARCAM]

I’d say go for acrylic as it’s plastic and easy to use and clean. Wood if you have to. Just make sure it’s sanded well after so no chips or anything fall off 👍🏻

[@prernabedmutha7730]

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[@Never-mind]

Thank you

[@MARCAM]

You're Welcome. Any problems just ask :)

[@Never-mind]

@@MARCAM appreciate!

[@arnaudancement4993]

Hello, can you tell me what key you press to enlarge the thickness of the lines? I can't do it thanks

[@MARCAM]

Hi, to expand the text I just press ctrl + )

[@connorwallace4400]

@@MARCAM hey this makes my text a blob and does not thicken it

[@MARCAM]

That usually happens if your text is really small. For some reason Inkscape only offsets a set amount. If you just increase the size of your text, then offset and then just resize to fit your project.