inkstitch VS inkscape-shortcut-manager

Also embroidery machines and fabric cutting machines:

https://inkstitch.org/

Go to their official website and follow their install instructions.

Try the suggestion from this conversation: https://github.com/inkstitch/inkstitch/issues/1829

Ink/Stitch

Hmm, have you tried searching or posting in the InkStitch GitHub issues section? I found it very helpful when I had a problem that stumped me.

If you are trying to make your own, from a picture or something there are some commercial options or you can use Inkspace with the plug-in called https://inkstitch.org/. If you do Cricut, then the same line drawing transformation ideas apply to make your own patterns.

I am unable to reply to any comments, so I’ll add my reply to blagie as a top-level comment instead: Gilles himself documents his process of using Inkscape here: castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

As a summary, he uses a custom keyboard shortcut manager¹ which allows him to compos multiple keystrokes (and also saves commonly used styles):

> For example, when I press `s` and `f` simultaneously, my shortcut manager will apply a solid stroke and a grey fill to the current selection. When I want the stroke to be thick, I press `s+f+g` together, where `g` stands for thick (as the `t` key is hard to reach).

[1]: he makes it available on GitHub: https://github.com/gillescastel/inkscape-shortcut-manager

Since some of the underlying tools like inkscape-figures-manager and inkscape-shortcut-manager are specific to Linux and macOS (even worse, while the former does support macOS, the latter only support Linux, hence I need to write new scripts with macOS specific tool to achieve the same functionality), so sadly, windows users are left behind...

I'm reasonably proficient with the language and syntax of python however when it comes to making actual applications I don't really know where to start. I can make very simple applications using pyinstaller but I would be aiming for something with utility like this.