It was doing its thing and when finished I realized that the path the router takes was also cut, as well as the single line fonts. I had everything "exactly right" but there was no GCODE front end to drop the router so I just dropped it into the material and hit send on GRBL. Why? Well I have beaten the SVG to GCODE to death and for some unknown reason the last try killed me. ![]() ![]() I started searching for a DXF to GCODE converter. Well I seem to have had some success, which at this point I am not sure I deserve. I tried to search the Newbie forum using keywords like GCODE and SVG to GCODE but found nothing, well the search said it found nothing Help please if you can bare to repeat yourself for the 400th time My problem: I am not able to detine the paramaters correctly to produce a good NGC from the SVG and if I get one right, it seems I have others wrong and it tries to engrave somewhere in Ohio :) Its all TEXT that has been Text to Path then grouped What I am trying to engrave: a 52mm x 52mm logo on some aluminum. NGC files produced from SVG: 1 but point of origin or what I would call Home is not defined properly The Home function in Gcode appears to be disabled in GRBL or the firmware.Įxperience: None, I have not engraved anything yet So I have spent days trying to find out where the (100.0 0.0 -0.12500) is generated and i cannot. I also get this alert when trying to produce the ngc that I have to pick one path to engrave, which makes sense except I cannot seem to get it to "one" The error printed is My 1310 has a working area of 126mmx88mm and that does not seem to cover the area between Wisconsin and Texas well :) It does away with the Tool Name warning but I still have the Wisconsin/Texas problem. I also get warnings when doing this that I have not defined the tool so I select Cone and tried that then the others. When I load it into GRBL point of origin is in Wisconsin and the graphic is in Texas. I thought I was doing fine and occassionally am able to produce an ngc. So after reading another couple thousand articles I was able to determine that if I define things correctly, I can produce an ngc file using the extension in Inkscape. I have sought out SVG to Gcode converters and I have one that produces a XYZ.Gcode but GRBL does not recognize it. I have watched 4321 tutorials on Youtube and hence the name FUBAR I have reduced my page area to be about 5mm wider than the boundary of the text. I have grouped everything together and have scaled it correctly. I have created an SVG which is basically text in a circle. XY Z all work spindle works and everything works in the correct directions when manually told to move using GRBL (latest version) I know nothing about my CNC Engraver 1310 but I am an old Technician and have it working. The version that I modified was made by Jay Johnson 2015, J Tech Photonics, Inc., have bitten off more than I can chew here. You need to extract it to your Inkscape extensions folder (see where it is by looking in your Inkscape system preferences). I have attached my version of this Inkscape plugin. ![]() You should send the laser to the Z-height you wish it to operate at before starting the job. I didn't add this line, but it could be an option for future modification, should you wish. ![]() Of note, the generated g-code does not send the laser to z zero when starting the job (this took me a little while to discover). I tested this G-Code with UCCNC, and cannot attest to how it works with Mach 3, or any of the other applications. Most of the variables are user-modifiable with the dialog box, however, there were a few setting s behind the scenes that needed changing (for setting the laser power, and the header and footer for the g-code). While there is no Stepcraft distiller for Inkscape, I was able to modify one of the open-source g-code generators for Stepcraft. There are already several plugins within Inkscape indended on producing vectors for laser cutting, and so I quickly became interested in using it with the Stepcraft. I recently discovered Inkscape when looking at a way of producing SVG files for use in Fusion 360.
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