I only want a half circle but it is cutting a full circle

[iamtutu]

Sorry, I posted this in turtorial by mistake:

Hi there!

My question is this:

I have an and in inkscape it is a sliver of a smile (think the letter c). It looks fine in outline mode and also in scal. However, when it cuts on the cricut it is creating a cut for a wide mouth smile (like the letter d). Is there something I should be doing in Inscape? I have tried union (gets rid of the smile), combine, exclude... what am I doing wrong?

[HeatherM]

Is your smile a closed shape or is it a line? SCAL will add lines to open shapes to close them. If you want to post the file someone will take a look at it. HTH

[papasue]

I did a tut on 'How to Make A Smile' it is on my Blog

I'd appreciate knowing if this worked for you.

http://papasuecreative.blogspot.com/200 ... scape.html

[iamtutu]

I will take a look at your video, thank you!

The smile is a line. It is the monkey from the New Arrivals cart. Let me see if I can post....

[iamtutu]

Here is an example on this blog http://leighslittleblog.blogspot.com/20 ... iness.html

She talks about how she made the Monkey using the George cart. If you have the image in scal, then that smile will not cut as just a line? Is there a way to fix that?

Thank you so much for your help. I can't post my scal image because I have to upload it to the server and I don't have access to it at the moment.

[HeatherM]

The easiest way is to select the smile, then Path/Stroke to path. SCAL will cut the outline of your smile, so you can control the size by changing the stoke width before you use Stroke to path. HTH

[iamtutu]

Thank you so much for the information. I will give them a try tonight and see how it works out. As much as I am figureing out Inkscape I really need to go through the tutorials so I don't develop bad habits.