Inkscape Zero to Hero

1. Introduction
   1. Scope of workshop
   2. What you will learn
   3. What is Inkscape?
2. Inkscape Installation and Setup
   1. Installation
   2. Configuration for Laser Use
   3. The Document properties window
   4. Installing Extensions
3. The Inkscape workscape.
   1. Panning/Scrolling
   2. Zooming in/out and resizing
   3. Viewing modes: Normal and Outline
4. Inkscape Menus
   1. Fill/Stroke: Shift-Cntl-F
   2. Alignment: Shift-Cntl-A
   3. Transformation: Shift-Cntl-M
   4. Text/Font : Shift-Cntl-T
5. Drawing Tool Basics
   1. Drawing Lines
   2. Drawing Shapes
   3. Grouping Shapes
   4. Making shapes from lines
6. Shape Basics
   1. Fill vs Stroke
   2. Normal vs Outline View
   3. Changing colors and opacity
   4. Rounding corners of rectangles and boxes
   5. Resizing shapes to specific sizes.
   6. Shape Rotation
7. Working with object/node snapping.
   1. Snapping Options
   2. Snapping on/off
   3. Snapping types
8. Node Manipulation
   1. Shapes vs Paths
   2. Paths vs Nodes
   3. Node types
   4. Moving nodes and node groups.
   5. adding and deleting nodes.
9. Shape Manipulation
   1. Groups
   2. Unions/Difference actions
   3. Groups versus shapes with negative space.
10. Breakdown of day 2 topics

1. Layers
   1. Adding a font
2. Working with Text
   1. Adding a font
   2. Converting to paths and merging
   3. Converting to Hershey Text
3. Working with extensions
   1. Tabbed Box Maker
   2. Living Hinge
   3. Cardboard box maker
4. Tracing Bitmap Tool.
5. Converting files to work on your material.
6. Various drawing techniques.
   1. Stroke to path.
   2. Using boxes for spacers

Lesson 1 : The Inkscape Window

Topic Notes