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! -- jst ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
