Very nice!

Thank you for this. I was stuck on the same thing you were and stroke to path worked perfectly!

Cheers!

I’m simply using Inkscape’s path logical operations (union, difference, intersection, exclusion, et cetra) on some cool base I like and the name I typed as text and converted to path.

The one trick that took me the longest time to figure out, is that these logical operations do NOT function on simple paths with no “volume”. They only work if the paths form a shape that the logic is then applied to. So what I do is that I select the path and give them a stroke that is as thin as possible, then I use the stroke to path operation. This creates a shape around the simple path, it looks like a simple path, but if you zoom in enough, you’ll see that it’s actually a shape surrounding it. Then you get to apply your logic operations on that :).

This will result in the plotter running twice on the same paths, that’s ok in most cases.

It took me a while to figure out all the little details, and it depends on what you’re starting point is, but this above was my biggest obstacle. Let me know if you’re stuck somewhere and I might be able to give you more pointers.