> silhouette software is proprietary To an exteeeeeeeent. I will point out that Silhouette is owned by Graphtec (who makes normal commercial cutters). You can

> silhouette software is proprietary To an exteeeeeeeent. I will point out that Silhouette is owned by Graphtec (who makes normal commercial cutters). You can get a very smooth upgrade path going from a Silhouette machine to a Graphtec machine running Silhouette software to then moving designs into the Graphtec packages. Otherwise... yeah. Silhouette machine driven with the Inkscape plugin is 100% the way to go to handle cutting.