Does it work as as an export pluging for gcode, right? Z-axis? so, it can use a real paintbrush or engrave illustrations with varying tool depth depending on line width?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Johnny Stenback <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I just wanted to share one of my recent late-night hacking outcomes. I > recently started looking into G-code generation of various kinds, and I > stumbled across Inkscape and Jeff Epler's gcode extension, and his work > on biarcs. I started playing around and eventually got the extension to > work in the latest version of Inkscape (0.46). I then made gcode produce > arcs (from circular arcs in Inkscape), and later on got Jeff's biarc.py > incorporated, so now the extension exports curves as biarcs (hard coded > to 5 per curve segment atm)! > > The code is by no means complete, and I'm fairly new to Python, so > there's probably some retarded stuff in there. The Z-axis movement isn't > always quite right (I might have broke that, but that's a detail that'll > work itself out over time here), but I wanted to share the fact that > generating G-code arc commands from biarcs, generated from curves in > inkscape works! > > The code is available to play with here: > > http://dp.jstenback.com/gcode/ > > I'd be interested to hear if anyone has thoughts or suggestions on this. > And a huge thanks to Jeff for his initial extension, and biarc.py! > > (this was sent to the emc-users list as well, but I figured maybe > there's people here who'd have thoughts too) > > -- > jst > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
