We have bought a cutter/ plotter and the files it uses are svg files.

All the demo files and help files and graphic techniques that are used to create shapes and patterns to cut out seem to be done in Inkscape.

The machine mfg's forum users only seem to use Inkscape and all the tutorials are based on Inkscape

I have been trying to use inkscape because it is but it keeps crashing after a couple of days on a laptop running Windows 7.

I have been a long time user of Xara but not for graphics, more for the photography side , will the latest version import and create svg files and is there any thing that it cannot do that inkscape can?

Can Xara look at a created vector drawing and Analise then add dimensions?

can it be used to brake paths and unlink nodes? etc etc

regards
Alistair