

I then tried repeating the process with my large pcb pattern file, but it keeps throwing up 'internal error' windows and closing.īefore it does so, the window with the original pattern appears with what looks like the conversion to a series of arrowed lines around the path, so it is working to some degree.Īfter all that, I suppose my first question is, is there a limit to the number of nodes in a path that this extension to Inkscape can cope with ? Having sorted out the above, I set it in motion, and was delighted to find a. Then, as various other hitches occurred - 'path is in root', so you must add another layer, I decided to start with a simple rectangle. I have now run into a variety of hitches/problems, the first being that it took a long time to discover that I had to rename the directory the code would be sent to, namely /home/john, not just /home. I've edited this, straightening up a lot of lines, removed a lot of nodes and finished with 2122 nodes on a 'single path'. png file, and re-imported it, scanned it and obtained an outline path with about 2500 nodes. I then exported this as a bitmap in 2 colours, saved as a.

My current project is to engrave a pcb, and having imported an illustration from a pdf file via a screen grab, I used inkscape first to redraw the layout with a 1mm 'pen'.

0.48 on a laptop running ubuntu 12.04 as a means to supply gcode to my cnc wood router running Linuxcnc.
