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I think he's wanting the car, not the wording.

I thought you just painted a tunnel and a road on the side of the mountain and waited for them to run into it while chasing the road runners.

If they are not going to uphold their side of the verbal agreement, send them a bill for the web developement work.

Just draw it. The shed is just a box with a triangle on top of it. and the door is just a squewed rectangle.

Mark beat me to it, and with a free font none the less. ha!

Looks like House Script http://www.whatfontis.com/House-Script.font

I think he did get your problem. You stated you tried the comm port and the post kind of indicated you were expecting a pop up window which will not happen with a comm port.

The key to soldering is using flux when you solder. Makes a world of difference.

CAC Shishoni Brush http://www.whatfontis.com/CAC-Shishoni-Brush.font?text=Family

looks like Quick End Jerk with a little kerning. http://www.whatfontis.com/Quick-End-Jerk.font

A case with metal in it would most certantly cause reception problems. Anything between the antena and the open air will block signal to some degree, so even plastic cases can cause some signal loss, but not usually enough to be noticable.

What software you using? There's a weld or union, or some sort of command that will do what you want.

Have you tried a different USB cable? Kinds of sounds like it is faulty. I've had problems with other devices that gave the same error message you are seeing and it turned out to be a wiring issue with the device I was working on. A faulting USB cable that may have a nick in one of the wires would cause problems like you are seeing.

Are you doing the install? If so just do the layering on the floor as you install.

So I'm confused. It sounds like you really don't know how to use Inkscape or Egravelab. Why are you trying to learn inkscape when you don't even know for sure it will do what you what where as Engravelab will do exactly what you want. You don't need to learn all of engravelab, just find the part that does what you need and figure out how to use it. I'm sure there are some howto videos out there some place. Not learning a small part of something because the thing as a whole is more than you need is like saying my car will go faster than I'll ever need so I'm not going to learn to drive.

cool setup. Looks like EngraveLab has a section called Photolaswer Automation that "Convert photographs into stunning, detailed laser etched graphics on all the latest materials." Sounds like this would do what you need. I'm not having any luck finding a manual on how to use this though. Might check the helpf file in the software. There also seems to be a package, PhotoLaser Plus, that does what you're wanting. I can't tell from the web page if this is included in the package you have of if it's additional software you'd have to buy.

You sure about that? From what I'm finding online it looks like most laser engravers work much like a printer and you simply convert your photo to black and white photo using half tones to achive the varying degrees of gray. What laser etching machine, make/model are you using?

I know images like that can be laser etched, but I would be surprised if when something like that is done the image is a vector, or if it is a vector I would guess it's more of a 3D CAD image rather than the 2D vector graphics you get from Inkscape. Have you found a laser etching forum? If such a forum exist, which I would assume there is one, they would probably be better equiped to help you acheive the results you're after.

What instructions were you following? Those 3 images do not look like something tyically associated with Inkscape.

found one on freepik.com that looks pretty good, can't actually download it from where I am now to check it out though. http://www.freepik.com/free-vector/new-york-landmark-statue-of-liberty_710644.htm

As long as you're not using the Scion car logo you should be fine.

3M 8830 is reflective silver although I'm not having much luck finding places to buy it. This place sells it but you have to contact them to get pricing, http://www.metlon.com/ordering-info/8830.htm Might try giving 3M a call and see if they can direct you to a local distributor, suggest an alternate, or possibly even give you a sample.

keep in mind you will want to distort your image to have it come out correctly on the glass. I use inkscape, and pattern along path to do this.

Don't remember the exact steps but basically you want to put an outline around Mom, then puntch it through the other word, then delete the outline.

You need to do more than just open an image with inkscape. Once the image is opened, select it, then from the menu bar, select Path->Trace Bitmap. That will open a window with various options to tweek, but the default should give you a pretty good starting point. Click ok. The trace of the image will be overlaid on the original. Click the trace and drag it over to see it better.