How to make laser-cut Holiday decorations

Step 8 Changing line colors and widths

To make sure the laser-cutter cuts and engraves the right bits of the decoration, you'll need to change the colors and widths of the lines you've already drawn. To change the colors and widths you'll use the 'Fill and Stroke' dialog box which you open from the 'Object' menu.

Give your twinkle an engraving color
Select the twinkle with the pointer tool. Remove the stroke and then fill it with black (RGB, 0, 0, 0). This tells our laser-cutter to engrave deeply into the surface.

Cutting out your bell
We can now tell the laser-cutter what parts we want to completely cut-out. Cutting lines need to be set to a stroke color of blue (RGB, 0, 0, 255). Set the line width to 0.003mm.

When you change the cutting lines to 0.003mm you may not be able to see them on your screen anymore. Don't worry, they are still there - if you zoom in you'll be able to see them.

Finally, group all your shapes together. To do this, select the outline of the bell, the hanging hole and the twinkle, then group them together (go to menu option: "Object > Group").

Watch the video for a full breakdown.

Note: this movie seems to pause after 15 seconds of playing. You can continue playing the movie if you nudge the slider forward and click play again.