On 7/27/2017 3:52 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hi,
I just wanted to say that I found a more reliable way to go from
metapost to dxf.
First run "context something.mp" and then
pstoedit -dt -f dxf:-polyaslines\ -mm something.1 something.dxf
For some reason the SVG files from metapost get wrong dimensions when
converted via inkscape, but pstoedit works super reliably.
in that case you can consider:
mp -> pdf -> mudraw/mutool -> svg
Mojca
On 29 June 2016 at 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hi,
I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD
software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps
some Blender, so I decided to try to use the super ugly route with
metapost -> svg -> dxf -> g-code
for the first time.
I have a few questions.
/.../
(3) Is there any way to convince the SVG output mode to generate something like
<svg ... width="100.0mm" height="100.0mm" ... >
rather than
<svg ... width="283.46456692913387" height="283.46456692913387" ... >
because the program I use to convert SVG to DXF has troubles
interpreting "points" properly. I read somewhere that they assume 90
points per inch because that's Inkskape's default.
(4) Does anyone have a better proposal for conversion into DXF (or
G-code)? I'm currently playing with FreeCAD and I've seen some
tutorials showing that AutoCAD can open PDF directly, but I don't want
to buy AudoCAD just for the sake of converting files.
Thank you,
Mojca
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