In late October Aaron spent quite a bit of time coaching me with regard to the DXF format. Others were very helpful too.
I still want to help to improve Inkscapes DXF capabilities but I am under quite a bit of financial and time strain right now with my business (70+ hours a week + 2 year old Son and my Wife). I have taught myself C in the meantime, however if I am not able to get it done in the next few months I will put a bounty on it and get someone else to do it.
I was just about to write and email on this and in fact had one saved in my drafts folder.
I am still a little unsure of the best way to do about this. There are in fact many versions of DXF and we are also talking about GSD. I was also talking about the direct cutter control. All of these things would severally bloat Inkscape and pure illustrators might object. I am not sure what to call it but perhaps this purpose is better served by another application that would be launched from within Inkscape. We could then add all these features by only adding one menu item.
-Patrick
Aaron Spike wrote:
Cynful wrote:
I'm not super technologically savvy, I probably only know enough to get myself in trouble ;) I found this thread by doing searches, as I'm having the problem with my DXF files coverted to GSD files in using one of the aforementioned digital craft cutters (the Silhouette, to be exact, manufactured by Graphtec and using the Robomaster software also mentioned above).
I'm interested in any fix to get these files to cut properly once they are in GSD format. I've contacted QuicKutz already, the company who has contracted Graphtec to make their product, the Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter, and I'm guessing that any change on their end, if even effected, would be super slow, at best. This seems to be the way things go when big corporations are involved.
What problems are you having with cutting the files that you create in Inkscape and convert to GSD with Robomaster?
Wondering if the decision had been made to possibly include a "save as GSD" in another version of Inkscape. I can't really tell by following the thread as I'm not sure who is involved in actual Inkscape development here (Ted? Aaron?) I'll check the Inkscape site again next, but I don't recall finding anything on their site about it under the FAQ's yesterday.
I think there is a general consensus that we would like to support the GSD format. As of right now no one that I know of has begun implementing GSD support in Inkscape. If you were able to convince Graphtec (or any other company privy to the details) to release a specification for the GSD file format that would be hugely enabling for us. At this moment we would need to reverse engineer the file format, which is very time consuming. Even more exciting (I think this thread was headed in this direction) would be developing open source drivers for these cutting machines, with the goal of cutting from directly from Inkscape and maybe even on Linux. For that, some developers would definitely need to get their hands on the machines.
Aaron Spike
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