Re: advise urgently required
xara designer x wil import svg files from inkscape
so far in my experience multi-layer inkscape svg files will be imported into xara as one layer, and hidden layers will be lost
shapes and bimaps should import ok - effects and transparencies may not
breaking shapes and unlinking nodes is certainly possible - not sure what you mean by 'add dimensions'
Re: advise urgently required
To answer your last 2 questions:- No it can't add dimensions to a drawing. As Steve states it will easily edit paths.
I don't know of any plotters that actually uses svg files as their instruction file it is usually ansci or HPGL.
Re: advise urgently required
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handrawn
...so far in my experience multi-layer inkscape svg files will be imported into xara as one layer, and hidden layers will be lost...
That is because layers in InkScape are not layers as in other applications. They are really a type of Z-ordering that is peculiar to InkScape. IIRC, the SVG spec does not include layers as we know them. That could have changed over the incremental changes to the spec, though.
@Alistair,
Can you let us know what brand of cutter you purchased? Looking at their help files and or examples would give a better idea of what you would be facing.
Take care, Mike