Make a Laser-Ready City Map from Real OpenStreetMap Data
Watch the 3:58 Map Maker tutorial: Make a Laser-Ready City Map from Real OpenStreetMap Data with a step-by-step PDF guide and the tool one click away.
In this tutorial
- Search a city, address or landmark, with suggestions as you type (Seattle, Washington)
- Dark, Light or Street background, drawn from Reticle Red's own map
- Frame tab: PHYSICAL OUTPUT SIZE 300 × 200 mm Landscape (custom sizes too, 20–1500 mm or inches), then drag the map to frame Elliott Bay and the downtown piers
- Layers: colour, weight and CUT or ENGR for each feature; switch Buildings on (off by default)
- PREVIEW MAP — FREE (5 free previews a day) and the WAYS / ROADS / WATER / BLDGS counts
- Roads: four road classes, and Street Names with a coverage slider
- Label: a title with the coordinates below, in the single-line Engraver typeface (pure paths)
- ADJUST MAP, drag, then Refresh Free Preview: new data, same styling
- MATERIAL / PNG: the burn on Baltic Birch, Walnut, Slate and Studio Black
- EXPORT SVG with the 2 CR confirmation, then DXF and EXPORT .LBRN2 with no second charge: all in millimetres at true scale (the SVG page is 300 × 200 mm), one layer per feature
Chapters
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:18 Search
- 0:29 Dark · Light · Street
- 0:43 Physical Output Size
- 1:05 Layers
- 1:17 Preview Map — Free
- 1:27 The vector preview
- 1:48 Roads
- 2:05 Label
- 2:19 ADJUST MAP → REFRESH
- 2:48 Material / PNG
- 3:08 EXPORT SVG
- 3:27 DXF and .LBRN2
- 3:43 Wrap-up
What the Map Maker tutorial covers
- 0:18 — Search
- 0:29 — Dark · Light · Street
- 0:43 — Physical Output Size
- 1:05 — Layers
- 1:17 — Preview Map — Free
- 1:27 — The vector preview
- 1:48 — Roads
- 2:05 — Label
- 2:19 — ADJUST MAP → REFRESH
- 2:48 — Material / PNG
- 3:08 — EXPORT SVG
- 3:27 — DXF and .LBRN2
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