I have a similar setup. For text, I use the truetype tracer For simple objects, I use paper, pencil with the MDI screen in Axis with my tool at a safe height.
For complex objects, I use autocad and AC2GC lisp routine available off the download section of cnczone. C Radek also has a Acad to Gcode tool. Personnally when I have the time, I play around with item 2 above. It gets my mind back into a pure mathematical frame and I get a much better understanding of various gcodes. CamBam is a windows based cadcam system. I found it a bit fussy but it has many good tools. There is a 40 use download trial period. On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Sebastian Kuzminsky <s...@highlab.com>wrote: > On 01/15/2011 01:11 PM, Loren Card wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to generate a tool path from a simple line drawing. > > Does anyone have a good way of doing this? I'd like to be able to draw a > > shape, scan it to a black and white image file and have my router follow > the > > lines drawn in the image. > > > > I've noticed Axis will generate a scanning (back and forth) toolpath from > an > > image file, but that's not what I'm looking for. > > > > If anyone knows of free or commercial software which can do this, I would > > love to hear about it. > > I've done something like this, somewhat tediously, by loading the > scanned image file into inkscape, manually tracing the lines I want, > saving the tracing as dxf, loading the dxf into heekscad, outputting a > gcode file with heekscnc, and feeding that to emc2. > > Not the most convenient, but it worked. > > > > Sorry if this question is too much CAD-CAM, and not really EMC-specific. > > Thanks for any help or advice. > > I think this topic is totally apropos on the emc-users list. :-) > > > -- > Sebastian Kuzminsky > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks > Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand > malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you > can protect your company and customers by using code signing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
