Craft Edge

you can simplify in inkscape, but you need to reduce a setting.

Go to File/ Inkscape preferences/ Misc (at the bottom) and then under Simplification Threshold, reduce that to as low as 0.0001 (I like to use somewhere between 2 and 6)

Here is another one that I used a font to replace the text. You can use the simplify in SCAL2, but a threshold of about 25 was as high as I could go without distorting the text. That reduced the new file to just over 500 nodes. You will probably need to clean it up node by node to get the best results.

Have you checked your cutting speed within SCAL?

ETA: I found that even with the setting as low as it can go in Ink that it distorted too much.

I did simplify and it made it look awful!

DogCarbon wrote:you can simplify in inkscape, but you need to reduce a setting.

Go to File/ Inkscape preferences/ Misc (at the bottom) and then under Simplification Threshold, reduce that to as low as 0.0001 (I like to use somewhere between 2 and 6)

thanks for helping!!!

HeatherM wrote:Here is another one that I used a font to replace the text. You can use the simplify in SCAL2, but a threshold of about 25 was as high as I could go without distorting the text. That reduced the new file to just over 500 nodes. You will probably need to clean it up node by node to get the best results.

Have you checked your cutting speed within SCAL?

ETA: I found that even with the setting as low as it can go in Ink that it distorted too much.

Thanks for trying Heather..do you think I am just out of luck? I can deal with it taking so long to cut, but it seems like since there are so many nodes, it is also making it a nightmare to weed to vinyl!! I look at the design and thing...oh that outta be easy to weed out and it is horrible! I know its not my vinyl quality because I use this vinyl ALL the time! Its gotta be the nodes! So I guess I will just go node by node...but how do I do that? just delete and fix, delete and fix?