On 16 February 2017 at 21:07, William Adams wrote: > Another option here would be to use a tool which directly accepts SVGs --- > one free/opensource tool for that is PartKAM/MakerCAM. > > My apologies for the late response --- investigating this sort of thing > myself, though I'll likely be using a proprietary tool, Carbide Create to > drive either a Nomad or a Shapeoko.
Now that you brought this topic out of the dead ... I managed to convert the SVG to DXF somehow back then (I'm not 100% sure how exactly, perhaps I was using Inkscape), but it turned out that the conversion was faulty and useless (it converted circles into octagons, proper scaling was lost, etc.), but I only realized that once I got to the machine with a limited time slot. The software that was installed next to the CNC did not accept PDFs, but eventually the "operator" pulled out his laptop with a newer version of (commercial) software and eventually imported my PDFs to get the models for the CNC (annoyed for the fact that I didn't bring "ready-to-use" files). He earlier explained that we should avoid PDFs (as they could be bitmap etc.), but of course the vector PDFs generated by ConTeXt were fine. (It will probably be a while until I will go there next.) Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
