Illustrator for laser cutting and engraving

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Software description

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor. It's part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, and it's sold in a subscription-based model. Illustrator is compatible (although not completely) with InkScape. Both software allow exporting in .svg, PDF, .eps, and .ps format.

Main Tools

Illustrator has a variety of tools for selecting, drawing, typing, painting, rotating, reshaping, creating graphs, zooming and moving objects (to cite a few). One of the most important tool is the pen tool, which allows to create straight and curve lines, create (and delete) anchor points on paths.

How to create a 8 cm diameter badge

Stroke settings

Change stroke weight

Outline stroke

Expand objects

Prepare the file in Illustrator to be printed through InkScape

Sources