Have you looked at F-engrave? It's an engraving and V-carving app for Linux. scorchworks.com.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 8:08 AM Thaddeus Waldner <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m using Fusion 360 in a workflow for engraving signs. This starts out as > a .dxf file, which I import into a fusion 360 sketch, and then use the > trace feature to generate tool paths. > > As an aside, if anyone has an idea for a simpler workflow (free, of > course) and one that perhaps doesn’t involve Windows, Please suggest it > here. I’ve tried DXF2GCODE and although it looks like it does all that I > need, but I couldn’t get it to work reliably, as it kept skipping features. > > The post processes for EMC—as it’s called in Fusion 360—somehow calls for > path blending and I cannot figure out where. Is path blending turned on by > default, unless you specify exact mode? > > Here’s the preamble as generated by the post: > > % > (ONOFFSWITCHESENGRAVE) > (T1 D=0.25 CR=0. TAPER=30DEG - ZMIN=0. - CHAMFER MILL) > N10 G90 G94 G17 G91.1 > N15 G20 > N20 G53 G0 Z0. > (TRACE2) > N25 T1 M6 > N30 S3820 M3 > N35 G54 > N40 M8 > N45 G0 X11.9375 Y0.9635 > N50 G43 Z0.54 H1 > N55 G0 Z0. > > I was able to fix this by adding the following line: > N36 G64 P0.001 > But I’d like to know how/why it as blending paths in the first place. > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
