Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
Thanks I will give that a try too. Dean Hedin wrote: http://www.deskam.com/deskengrave.html The above comes with it'a own stick font, but I don't use that. Instead I use TT fonts that are very thin. - Original Message - From: Lawrence Glaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] text to gcode
Take a look at desk engrave. http://www.deskam.com/deskengrave.html The only reason I still have to use window$. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Text to Gcode
Anyone know of a program that will convert TEXT to Gcode ? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
See section 8 and 9 of this link... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators cheers LawrenceG On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 19:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a program that will convert TEXT to Gcode ? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
Thanks Lawrence, There isn't something that can do a bit more fancy fonts? I need to engrave a logo close as possible to Arial where letters about 20mm high. Lawrence Glaister wrote: See section 8 and 9 of this link... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators cheers LawrenceG On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 19:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a program that will convert TEXT to Gcode ? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Lawrence, There isn't something that can do a bit more fancy fonts? I need to engrave a logo close as possible to Arial where letters about 20mm high. Lawrence Glaister wrote: See section 8 and 9 of this link... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators Did you scroll down the page Lawrence sent you to? Under 9. Other g-code generators is a link to TrueTypeTracer, a GPL program that will generate g-code from any True-Type font. http://www.timeguy.com/cradek/truetype Regards, John Kasuncih - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0500, John Kasunich wrote: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators Did you scroll down the page Lawrence sent you to? Under 9. Other g-code generators is a link to TrueTypeTracer, a GPL program that will generate g-code from any True-Type font. and which comes preinstalled on all the emc2 live cds... - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
Chris wrote a program that uses true type fonts as input. You have thousands of tt fonts available. It basically generates gcode or dxf instructions that define the perimeter of a filled true type font. For engraving, sometimes you want the fonts filled and can do that by importing the dxf file into autocad and using hatch to fill the fonts. http://www.timeguy.com/cradek/truetype I found the stick fonts that qcad and engrave-11 uses worked nicely for engraving panels with smaller labels (0.2 to 0.5 height). Engrave-11 uses fonts that the cutter cuts on the center line of the stroked fonts. Small endmills or v cuters or even diamond scribers work well I also like the vcarve v cutter method of doing fonts for signs, but I dont know of a free or open source program that does the v carving style of engraving. http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectric/vcp/vcp_index.htm cheers On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 20:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Lawrence, There isn't something that can do a bit more fancy fonts? I need to engrave a logo close as possible to Arial where letters about 20mm high. Lawrence Glaister wrote: See section 8 and 9 of this link... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators cheers LawrenceG On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 19:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a program that will convert TEXT to Gcode ? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
Yes, I already tried that program but it fails after execution. [EMAIL PROTECTED] truetype-tracer-3.0]# ./truetype-tracer 'BLA'test.ngc Fatal error in FT_New_Face: cannot open resource (1) at line:255 John Kasunich wrote: Did you scroll down the page Lawrence sent you to? Under 9. Other g-code generators is a link to TrueTypeTracer, a GPL program that will generate g-code from any True-Type font. http://www.timeguy.com/cradek/truetype Regards, John Kasuncih - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
I cannot use EMC as it does not support my Isel's Gcode. All my work is 2-dimensional so i can program very quickly writing directly in GCODE and just sending the file to the ISEL. I would like to use EMC of course, but it doesnt support ISEL. I just dont like to program fonts...aarggh, therefore I want to see if there isn't something that can generate Truetype like fonts of variable size. The program you mentioned unfortunately fails to run after compilation. Chris Radek wrote: and which comes preinstalled on all the emc2 live cds... - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
Thanks Lawrence. I missed the Fontfile import for Engrave11. I am pretty sure that will work if I can use fonts from Linux fontservers. How do you compile a Python program again? Lawrence Glaister wrote: I found the stick fonts that qcad and engrave-11 uses worked nicely for engraving panels with smaller labels (0.2 to 0.5 height). Engrave-11 uses fonts that the cutter cuts on the center line of the stroked fonts. Small endmills or v cuters or even diamond scribers work well I also like the vcarve v cutter method of doing fonts for signs, but I dont know of a free or open source program that does the v carving style of engraving. http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectric/vcp/vcp_index.htm cheers - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot use EMC as it does not support my Isel's Gcode. All my work is 2-dimensional so i can program very quickly writing directly in GCODE and just sending the file to the ISEL. I would like to use EMC of course, but it doesnt support ISEL. I just dont like to program fonts...aarggh, therefore I want to see if there isn't something that can generate Truetype like fonts of variable size. That would be TrueTypeTracer. The program you mentioned unfortunately fails to run after compilation. So you abandon it and look for something else? It works for plenty of people, whatever problem you are having is surely fixable. If you can connect to the #emc IRC channel, you can probably get faster help. Regards, John Kasunich - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
To add, when I run Engrave11, the GUI comes up, but there is only QUIT on the bottom and not Sendto ... and Quit as on the webpage. It does not generate Gcode and the text doesnt appear in the cursored Window. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Lawrence. I missed the Fontfile import for Engrave11. I am pretty sure that will work if I can use fonts from Linux fontservers. How do you compile a Python program again? Lawrence Glaister wrote: I found the stick fonts that qcad and engrave-11 uses worked nicely for engraving panels with smaller labels (0.2 to 0.5 height). Engrave-11 uses fonts that the cutter cuts on the center line of the stroked fonts. Small endmills or v cuters or even diamond scribers work well I also like the vcarve v cutter method of doing fonts for signs, but I dont know of a free or open source program that does the v carving style of engraving. http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectric/vcp/vcp_index.htm cheers - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 21:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Lawrence. I missed the Fontfile import for Engrave11. I am pretty sure that will work if I can use fonts from Linux fontservers. How do you compile a Python program again? You dont really compile python programs they are interpreted. so you type python engrave-11.py to run the program. Very similar to the way basic used to work. If you right click on the file in the file browser and set the properties to execute, then clicking on the file should allow yo to run the file by clicking on it. cheers Lawrence Lawrence Glaister wrote: I found the stick fonts that qcad and engrave-11 uses worked nicely for engraving panels with smaller labels (0.2 to 0.5 height). Engrave-11 uses fonts that the cutter cuts on the center line of the stroked fonts. Small endmills or v cuters or even diamond scribers work well I also like the vcarve v cutter method of doing fonts for signs, but I dont know of a free or open source program that does the v carving style of engraving. http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectric/vcp/vcp_index.htm cheers - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 21:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I just got confused with clipboard which is a windows thing. If it is just the paste-buffer then I understand it in Unix. Is there any way to scale the fonts larger. I tried your x,y scale fields but they do nothing I could see. Anyway to scale a font to say 25mm high? No problem with scaling... the display in the little graphics window is scaled to fit the window and give you and idea of the angular orientation, zero reference and flip/mirror options. If you are running it with axis (or load the gcode into a gcode viewer), you will see the result of scaling. If you look in the gcode file, the scale parameters are defined as gcode variables so you can tweak them to whatever size you want. The gui just sets the intial value for the scale variables. Since the input fonts dont appear to have any particular reference size (Points?), the scale numbers are arbitrary and must be adjusted to yield the size you desire. I use the engrave-11 program with axis as axis has a great preview window that verifies the code and also shows the 3d extents of the gcode file. Engrave-11 is a tool, it does not try to be an editor or CAD system. The source code is provided and commented have a read through it... you may have ideas for improvements and will have a much better understanding of how everything works together. Looking at and understanding the generated gcode will also help you get a better idea of how emc converts instructions into machine motion. Single step in emc can be quite useful to see what different g code instructions do. Automated machine operation is a complex subject... there is lots to learn. Enjoy and be safe LawrenceG -- = Lawrence Glaister VE7IT mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1462 Madrona Drive Nanoose Bay, B.C.http://members.shaw.ca/swstuff Canada V9P 9C9 http://gspy.sourceforge.net = - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
There is a small program (600kb) that will use any TTF and convert it into either a dxf or a dnc file in either an arc or a straight line. http://www.cnc.yertiz.com/text2.htm Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a program that will convert TEXT to Gcode ? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3580 (20081103) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode
http://www.deskam.com/deskengrave.html The above comes with it'a own stick font, but I don't use that. Instead I use TT fonts that are very thin. - Original Message - From: Lawrence Glaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Text to Gcode See section 8 and 9 of this link... http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Simple_EMC_G-Code_Generators cheers LawrenceG On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 19:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a program that will convert TEXT to Gcode ? - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
