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FIGURE 7-34 Gears and base ready to transfer to Ponoko template
10. Now you need to prepare the file to be uploaded and ordered on the Ponoko
site.
a. Ponoko uses colors to indicate how to treat the files. A blue 0.030mm line
means cut it all the way through. Select everything you’ve drawn so far,
go to the color swatches at the bottom of the screen, and hold down the
SHIFT key while you click blue.
b. Open the P1.svg template you downloaded earlier. Select everything you
have drawn so far, and copy and paste it into this template, as shown in
Figure 7-35. Don’t worry about the orange border and words; Ponoko
knows to cut only the blue outlines. Save the file.
