You can also experiment with Inset, Outset, or Simplify under the path menu. When i paint a line with the pen, so it works, but not with the picture.ĭavid When you're tracing (vectorizing) the bitmap, you can try brightness cutoff instead of edge detection. But i want only one line(the same like the picture). When i set the path to the gcode, i get one line outside the picture and one line inside the picture. I have a problem with a bmp (it´s only a comic figure with one black line). Can you suggest how this can be determined?ĭavid Try moving the orientation points to inside (or outside) of what you're trying to cut. Hi, I am following your guide and have come across an issue with the plasma paths being produced on the wrong side of the profile to be cut. Oops, not header.txt, the empty file should just be named header with no extension. Would the changes remain in library then at it is std to the machine in use?Īlso is there a way - when posting code to Mach3 - that it is free of the header and M03 that needs deleting?ĭavid I've only briefly used SheetCam, so I'm not sure about your first question.Īs to posting G-code without a header, make sure you have an empty (blank) file in your output directory that is called header.txt. Thus would like to know if there is a way to set up - either as in the 'green' section under tool library - that it could perform the same?

The THC product of cncdirect and, I am running it with a floating head to reference Zero for Z axis. Useful Information.nice post and in detail.thanks.Ĭurrently on my own build plasma cnc, I use Sheetcam with postprocessor MP1000THC. I hope mine will be successful and I would try to use your suggestion to try Inkscape in the future for my cnc plasma cutter projects.

It really helped me on my current project. That is a very detailed instruction on how to create G-code from a drawing. Thanks for that, I was struggling with a similar problem.

Inkscape tutorial for cnc