This InkCut tutorial was very helpful, but it still took a bit of trial and error to figure out how to get the software to talk to the Silhouette Cameo… Ubuntu 16.04 This is also why I chose the Cameo over the Cricut machine… InkCut doesn’t work with Cricut. I chose InkCut because it seems like the most popular and viable. There are a few ways to send vector data straight from Inkscape to the Silhouette Cameo machine. config folder into which the InkCut file will be moved (below). Make sure you run Inkscape at least once before installing InkCut: 1 I have no long-term interest in using the hokey design software that comes with the Cameo machine, preferring to use the open source Inkscape vector graphics tool instead.Īdded the Inkscape repository and install: 1 Sudo apt-get install python-pip python-gtk2-dev python-cups You don’t realize you need these packages until you try using InkCut for the first time and it crashes: 1 I did the usual system prep before adding the software upon which Inkscape and InkCut depend: 1

We had to dust off our old MacBook Air to upgrade the cutter’s firmware. We went with the Silhouette Machine because it seemed easier to get running on Ubuntu 16.04, though neither machines are particularly open source friendly. My wife and I had a hard time deciding between the Silhouette Cameo 3 and the Cricut Explore Air 2. This approach never really worked very well.

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