With the items you want to transform selected, click on the rotate button. Select the item first and then select the tool. These functions work by modify the currently selected item(s).
This is how to make text follow curves and lines. If the user has another object selected while creating new text, Lasercut will offer to align the new text to the selected object. The desired text goes in the very bottom text box. The font is selected from the drop down box, but the user is not provided with a preview as to what the font will look like. “Space” is the amount of room to leave between each letter.
“Height” is the full height of a character should it reach to the top of the line and all the way under the line. The numeric values on the form are given in millimetres. Lasercut then presents the user with the text entry dialog box, the size of the drawn rectangle bears no resemblance to the size of the text created. With the text tool, the user is expected to click and drag to draw a rectangle on the screen. Holding down the ctrl key while the rectangle is being drawn makes the height and width the same length so the shape ends as a circle. An ellipse of the appropriate height and width is drawn within the specified rectangle. The second click places a node in the bottom right hand corner. The first click with the ellipse tool places a node as the top left hand corner of an ellipse. The polyline is ended by double clicking to place the final node. Each click places a new node and a line is drawn straight between the new node and the previous node. The polyline is very similar to the line tool. Holding down the ctrl key while the Ellipse is being drawn makes the height and width the same length so the shape ends as a square. Once placed the rectangle can be freely deformed by moving the corner nodes around. All four corners of the rectangle become nodes which Lasercut can snap to. The first click with the rectangle tool places a node as the top left hand corner of a rectangle. When the line tool is placed near the nodes of an existing line Lasercut draws a small green square around the node, this means that the new line will start (or end) at exactly the same location as that node. The first click creates a node which starts the line, a second click creates another node which becomes the end of the line. The line tool is the simplest of all the tools. These functions draw new items on the canvas. For more complicated drawings it is recommend that you use a 3rd party program like Inkscape and import the drawing as a dxf. These functions are very useful for creating quick drawings or to modify imported items. Lasercut 5.3 provides the user with a selection of basic drawing functions.
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