Sad to see all the effort that has gone into version 1.0.2 going to waste, for me anyway.I recently discovered Inkscape when looking at a way of producing SVG files for use in Fusion 360. Gcodetools never worked on the earlier versions of Inkscape anyway. Interestingly all the third party extensions I have found all seem to have been derived from the same piece of code. I did manage to correct some of it but not all. I have spent some time looking at the errors in the Gcode extensions from third parties and the code used is above my pay grade in its use of Python. I think the people in charge of Inkscape made a mistake and over estimated third parties abilities / commitment to upgrading their extensions. Thanks for the recommendation I will check it out, I am considering LightBurn as all I need is to put the Gcode on an SD card and plug that card into my cutter. You can use version 1 to create the drawing and load those drawings into the earlier version to do the code generation but that is a bit of a pain. I find that Inkscape V 0.9.2 still works for generating Gcode, it is frustrating to still have to use it when there are all the improvements in version 1. I’m not saying mine is right or the best but it works for me and may help someone else. Please bear in mind that I have only been using Inkscape for just over a week and have watched and read numerous tutorials online, some of them useful, and that there are probably numerous routes through this program to achieve the results you want. Get to grips with spindle speeds and controlling them.Get Inkscape to generate the spindle control commands.You should see all the required code needed to cut your image. Then, to check results, go to your specified file from the step above and open it in Notepad or similar text editor.Then click on the Path to Gcode tab and click Apply to generate the file. First under the Preferences tab, set your location and filename where you want your generated Gcode file to be saved. And finally, Extensions>Gcodetools>Path to Gcode.Leave it set to the default =2 and its settings. Next Extensions>Gcodetools>Orientation points.You also need to add Gcode before path = M3 (start your tool spindle) and Gcode after path = M5 (stop your tool spindle) to activate your cutter. Select the Text tool on the left and click on and change the Diameter mm, feed (speed) and Penetration (depth of cut mm) as required. A grey box parameter appears by your document. I found that the only tool in the list that works for me is the Default one at the top.
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