Before and after sanding, feel the boards with your hands. Make sure your boards are clean and smooth - I usually go over them once with 320 grit sandpaper then blast them with compressed air. (You can also buy the designs seen in some of the photos here at my website) The SVG source files are inside this attached zip file: Draw your own designs or use photographs to adorn your tiles. If you want to get artistic, this step is your chance. Next, make only the following layers visible: etch etchframe cutpips Select “ File->Save As…” like you did before and save this one as “ board1_etchcut.pdf” Do the same steps with catan_board2_instructable.svg to create the files “ board2_cut.pdf” and “ board2_etchcut.pdf”. Then change the name to “ board1_cut.pdf” and click Save. With the dropdown box, change the file extension from “Inkscape SVG (*.svg)” to Portable Document Format (*.pdf)”. By clicking on the “eye” icons in the Layers tool, make only the following layers visible: cuthexes cutframe cutports Now select “ File->Save As…” from the menu. Open the “Layers” tool by selecting “ Layer->Layers…” from the menu. Open catan_board1_instructable.svg in Inkscape. Inkscape is a free, Open Source software program for manipulating SVG files. If you don’t already have it, download Inkscape at. I have included here the SVG source files - you should be able to use Inkscape to convert the SVG to whatever format you need.
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Your laser cutter may prefer a different format.
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#Blank catan board how to#
The Epilog laser cutters have good Corel Draw drivers, so I will show how to prepare PDF files to be used with Corel Draw.