
In the screenshot above, you can see we used 3 different colours - each colour will be used to demonstrate a different kind of hatch fill texture configuration. In case you do no specify which filled closed parts you fish to add hatch fill texture to, the extension will automatically handle every object and produce a hatch fill texture over the whole closed outline of the design. The Hatch Fill Extension will produce a texture into areas which has a fill added to them. Inkscape only loads new extensions at startup. NOTE: Make sure every file from the downloaded archive is copied into the Extensions folder, otherwise you might face errors mentioning missing scripts. In our article, we will work through the steps using Windows - the interface should be nearly the same across all platforms. Check out Inkscape's official page for a quick guide on how to locate this folder. If you need more information or help with installing the extension, check out this page which gives a detailed explanation for several operation systems. Once you have downloaded the compressed folder, extract the contents into the folder where you set Inkscape to find your custom extensions. To get the files, head over to "Assets" on the official Github page for the project here. It is available for Windows, Linux and Mac systems If you are new to Inkscape: it's a f ree open source vector graphics program that is a popular choice for creating SVG & DXF files suitable for importing into laser cutter software like LightBurn, RDWorks & Lasercut. They have a Twitter page, a Facebook page and a Youtube channel as well.īefore you continue reading, make sure that you have Inkscape installed. You can find the Github Page for the EggBot Extension here and the EggBot Wiki right here. They are behind the Eggbot Project, AxiDraw, the WatercolorBot (as a joint project with Zephyrus T) just to name a few out of the many crazy and amazing projects this team has been working on. This extension developed by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories for Inkscape lets you produce interesting Hatch Fill textures for your project. In this article, we are going to introduce the Hatch Fill Extension for Inkscape by a little project demonstration! Creating texture fills for your design in a CAD software can be a time consuming sidetrack in a project.
