Re: [Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-19 Thread Loren Card
help. -Loren On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Loren Card wrote: > Lori, >> >> Could you be kind to us and write down the steps you have gone through, >> and possibly post a picture somewhere of your results? :) >> >> ... Thanks, ... Jack >> >> I don

Re: [Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-16 Thread Loren Card
> > Lori, > > Could you be kind to us and write down the steps you have gone through, > and possibly post a picture somewhere of your results? :) > > ... Thanks, ... Jack > > I don't think I'll be cutting until next Saturday. I'll put up some images of the job after I run it (as long as you stop c

Re: [Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-15 Thread Loren Card
Hello again. Thank you all for your excellent suggestions. I have Inkscape working with the Gcodetools extensions generating toolpaths.The bezier curve tool was confusing at first, but I've used it to outline the shapes I needed. I am looking forward to trying some of your other hints too. My fri

[Emc-users] Toolpaths from simple line drawings?

2011-01-15 Thread Loren Card
x27;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. Sorry if this question is too much CAD-CAM, and not really EMC-specific. Thanks for any help or advice. -Loren Card --

Re: [Emc-users] Truetype-tracer - Fill not filling.

2010-08-31 Thread Loren Card
> > I'm trying to get truetype-tracer to fill text. > > Check to make sure block delete isn't on.  It puts / in front of the > fill gcode. > That was my problem. Thank you for helping me correct my operator error. (The birthday signage is back on schedule.) -Loren

[Emc-users] Truetype-tracer - Fill not filling.

2010-08-30 Thread Loren Card
Esteemed emc2 Users, I'm trying to get truetype-tracer to fill text. Chris' page tells us to use the '-l' option to turn on filling, but I can't find any reference for what type of argument the flag wants. I've assumed its a numeric argument and tried powers of 10 ranging from 0.1 to 1 wi