The colour will map to different extruders so you can make multi colour prints. A next layer in inkscape will be a next layer in the print.

You can see, that as stated originally, rounded shapes are not as easy to manipulate (letters X and R).Release early, release often they say, so I released a halfway-point in my project to use inkscape to draw the paths the printer will put down directly in inkscape.

Note: You don’t have to move the duplicate shape down and to the right, you could move it up and to the left (as shown below).

You should now have a basic extruded shape.

Repeat for all of the nodes that need to be deleted.

Adjust the mode handles so that they are on top of the node they came from.

With the node deleted, the node handles will become visible.

Select the first node to delete, then press the delete button.

They are highlighted in purple (see also screenshot below showing just the top of the letter T)

On the letter T of the image above, I’ve selected the corner nodes that will need to be deleted.

Then press the Edit nodes by path button (or press F2).

Press Ctrl++ or click on Path > Union to combine the two black objects together.

(You should now have the 2 black objects selected)

Then with the shift key held down, click on the original black text.

Alt and click the top duplicate to select the black duplicate just beneath it.

Change the colour of the top duplicate to allow you to see it better.

Create a duplicate of the duplicate in the new position.

Move the duplicate slightly below and to the right using the down and right keys.

Once done, click out of the text editor and then click back on the text once to select it.

You’ll see in the picture below that most of the letters below have straight lines.

Please note, this techniques works best on straight lines, rather than curves, so choose your font accordingly. Click on the T button on the tool panel and then click on the page.Firstly, open up Inkscape and create a new document.I’ve created this How-to guide using Text as an example, but it applies just as easily to shapes and other Inkscape objects. However, you can simulate 3D objects quite quickly and easily using Inkscape. Unless you are good with Blender, Google Sketchup or AutoCAD, real 3D is probably not achievable.

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