I’m rethinking that.Ī retired electrical engineer, I spent 40+ years in industry, working with many engineers and scientists… some incredibly organized (as you obviously are) and others who are some of the most disorganized folks you could ever meet. I was planning on using Inkscape for design and LightBurn for laser machine control. The CAD part of LightBurn is actually turning out to be much better than I originally imagined it to be. As much as I love Inkscape, it just can’t do this one thing. I saved the whole thing and exported it as an stl file all in about 5 minutes. I quickly made the 12x18 rectangle to cut with cool rounded corners and placed 48 holes nicely arranged and centered inside it. It dawned on me that LightBurn has a array/grid function. That would be a messy time consuming job. Since I plan on having a pattern of holes evenly spaced 6 rows high by 8 rows long, I don’t want to place them all by hand. I started creating the design in Inkscape and quickly realized its not capable of arranging an array of 1/8” holes the way I want. I’m going to cut it out of 1/16 aluminum sheet with a waterjet. I bought a pack of 50 1” spikes with screw bases on eBay. However this week I want to build a 12” x 18” “Spike Plate” for my laser. I have a big 473 page book on everything Inkscape all dog eared with notes. I use Inkscape all the time for my design work. I know they’re two completely different things.
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