{"id":174,"date":"2013-12-23T17:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T16:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/?p=174"},"modified":"2014-07-05T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T13:51:26","slug":"g-code-from-svg-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"G-code from svg files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again I spent some time searching for free tools to improve my cnc toolchain. I stumbled upon two simple but helpful flash programs for handling g-code files:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Makercam (http:\/\/www.makercam.com\/)<br \/>\nThis tool loads svg files and generates g-code toolpaths from it. I can create programs for drilling, pockets, outlines and follow path operations. There are only two things to keep in mind when using it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The svg file may only contain a single path. However this is not a big problem, because you can create such svg files easily using inkscape. Just combine all paths and then save it.<\/li>\n<li>Makercam assumes a resolution of 72 dpi when importing a svg file. Inkscape produces files, that have 90 dpi. To fix this open the preferences of Makercam and replace 72 by 90 dpi before loading any svg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>G-code viewer (http:\/\/www.buildlog.net\/gview\/index.html)<br \/>\nThis tool offers a quick way to inspect your g-code files before sending them to a cnc mill. Just drag the g-code file onto the browser window. All rendering is done locally without transferring your file to a server.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again I spent some time searching for free tools to improve my cnc toolchain. I stumbled upon two simple but helpful flash programs for handling g-code files: Makercam (http:\/\/www.makercam.com\/) This tool loads svg files and generates g-code toolpaths from it. I can create programs for drilling, pockets, outlines and follow path operations. There are only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnc","category-useful-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthias.roehser.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}