Craft Edge

Steven,
Try doing a very small shadow and see if that gets rid of the detail you don't want. You might also try the Simplify command a bunch of times.

Oh, I see the advantage! Am missing my extensions for many reasons.
MTC's is so elegant you just create whatever you want (no rectangle) and it curves to fit, then gives you a 3D preview and you can see it slide up and down on the cup as you adjust.

This is sooo my cup of tea but unfortunately all my Inkjet extensions quite working for me a couple of weeks ago. :) I had been using this online tool to generate my curves until I got MTC which has an awesome tool for this. http://www.red-bag.com/jcms/free-online-engineering-tools/cone-strike-out.h...

Thanks for sharing that, Sue.
I have a list here of cursive fonts that work great for vinyl here
http://cleversomeday.wordpress.com/2011 ... escutters/

InspirationROB by Rob Leuschke typesetit.com

I would look for plastic folders or report covers. That stuff is light and colorful, but not hard to cut.

That format is not compatible with anything but MTC now, but its not proprietary or anything so hopefully Todd will add that feature to SCAL soon. In the meantime, the LD thin fonts come with a TTF version that works pretty well for pens and markers.

That looks like Comic Sans Bold with stencil bridges cut out.

You can either do a screen capture (if low resolution will work) or print to PDF (if you need high resolution) to get a file you can import into SCAL. You may want to color the pieces black in SS first to make them easier to trace in SCAL. A couple of versions of SS (1.9-2.1 I think) accidentally al...

I was talking about the white seam lines I can see in your chick image in the first post. That is what I always used to get in Inkscape.