Setup tab → pen down (it retains my pen up/down position settings between sessions, yay!) (I use 83% and 17%).Order doesn’t matter, just keep your colors separate. Just add a number for each layer (or set of layers) in a particular color. The AxiDraw extension for Inkscape allows you to plot multiple layers separately, which I’ve done to produce this green-red-gold design. These registration marks make it easy to align the layers if anything goes awry, and tell the robot to use the same bounding box for each layer.

We updated the graphics used in our templates according his recommendations.I added crosshairs to each layer, since I’ve sometimes had issues with the AxiDraw starting different layers in different places when there was whitespace. Manfred did a great job analysing the new iOS 7 App Icon. You should read Exploring iOS 7 Rounded Corners from Manfred Schwind. For example, the AppIconTemplate-29.png is 29×29 pixels width/height, the is 58×58, and so forth. The PNG files follow (more or less) Apple’s naming convention. Once the script is done you will see a bunch of PNG icons in various sizes in the same directory as your SVG file resides. If you are on a Linux box you have to change the script a bit: you have to provide the right path to your Inkscape binary. If you don’t have Inkscape the script will not work. Resize.sh uses Inkscape in a headless mode to export the SVG to PNGs. Execute resize.sh from within a Terminal. Next, you run the resize.sh script to create PNG files of your App icon in various sizes. No worries, the icon will be masked by Apple automatically. There should be no guides visible and the mask (those round corners) should disappear. Once you are done with designing, disable the GRID, MASK and BORDER layers. Add your artwork to the Foreground and Background layer.

The layers GRID, MASK, and BORDER help you to design your icon. You can download the SVG template and the script here.ĭownload and extract the archive.

For easy export we wrote a small script to quickly render your App icon in all sizes you will need for iOS development. So we created our own SVG App Icon Template for iPad and iPhone 7 Apps. There are a couple of IOS 7 App Icon Template for Photoshop available, but none for Inkscape. We here at Kodira are fond of Inkscape, a great vector graphics editor to edit SVG files.

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