Hello. I'm the author of image-to-gcode, and I'm happy to answer your questions. Thanks for reading the manual first, by the way, even if it didn't answer your questions. (and it looks like the screen shot doesn't match the current version of the program -- whoops!)
When image-to-gcode is working on "Rows", it will pick a particular "Y" value, and then for each pixel in the row it will compute the depth the tool can descend to without cutting away anything you want left in the finished work. It performs this computation at every pixel in the row, though in places where successive points are in nearly straight lines, it outputs a single "G1" movement, instead of one for each pixel. Then when it complets that row, it moves down by "Stepover" pixels to do the same thing over again. If you want to move down by about .05 inches each time, and you specified a Pixel Size of .005, you would choose a stepover of 16, because .005 * 10 = .05. One last piece of advice: you can get at least some sense of what effect the different options have by changing them and observing the effect on the preview plot in AXIS. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
