What this template makes: Name with a flower

Name with a flower Pro

A name on a stem with a flower at the tip, in two layers to glue and contrast.

Flowers drawn by hand, cut out of the top layer so the colour of the backing shows through.

How it goes together

The stem is not decoration: it is what holds everything. Running through the name end to end it joins up the letters that were left loose and hooks the flower on, so the whole thing comes out as a single piece. Without it you would have to thicken the border enormously and the name would stop reading.

The flowers are drawn by geometry, not traced from a file: that is why they come out at whatever size you ask without losing definition, and the cut is clean.

With two layers the outline is cut underneath and the design on top, so you can glue it on in another colour. The details of the petals and the veins are engraved, not cut through.

Frequently asked questions

Name with a flower: what size can it be?

Every measurement is typed in millimetres and the drawing is redone as you type: height, from 8 to 200 mm, join, from 0 to 4 mm and size, from 10 to 300 mm. Everything else — joints, dividers, holes — is worked out from those measurements.

Does it work for MDF, acrylic or plywood?

For any sheet your laser can cut: MDF, plywood, acrylic or thick card. What matters is the thickness, adjustable from 0.5 to 20 mm, and the kerf — what the beam eats away: the joints are drawn from those two numbers, so they push together without sanding.

What format does it download in?

SVG or DXF, your choice, in millimetres and at 1:1 scale. It opens as is in LightBurn, RDWorks, LaserGRBL, Inkscape, Illustrator or CorelDRAW, with nothing to scale or convert. Cutting and engraving come on separate named layers — “Cut” in red and “Engrave” in blue — so you set the power for each without separating anything by hand.

Do I have to pay to use it?

Name with a flower is free to use and adjust: you can see exactly how your design will come out before deciding anything. Downloading the file needs the Pro plan, or one of the trial downloads that come with the free account.

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