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From: "Jan Tosovsky" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>
To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:05:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25834.3697911643$1467234429@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsZ_e57=sMRL36Lrmg4yyikLK7A+g46ceBhWkv2f+BcB9w@mail.gmail.com>

On 2016-06-29 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD
> software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps
> some Blender, so I decided to try to use the super ugly route with
> metapost -> svg -> dxf -> g-code for the first time.

For simple shapes I'd choose Inkscape SVG editor, which can export to DXF directly. In settings you can customize the coords precision to reduce those fractions.

For more sophisticated designing I'd skip simple 2D CADs and use parametric tools instead (allowing to use equations instead of fixed values which simplifies future refactoring).

I'd recommend Autodesk Fusion, which is even free for enthusiasts:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-activate-start-up-or-educational-licensing-for-Fusion-360.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzqXo0d0W8s

Jan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-29 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-29 10:31 Mojca Miklavec
2016-06-29 12:12 ` Hans Hagen
2016-06-29 20:49   ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-06-30  7:15     ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-16 20:07       ` William Adams
2017-02-17  6:33         ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-06-29 21:05 ` Jan Tosovsky [this message]
2017-07-27  1:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
2017-07-27  8:49   ` Hans Hagen
2017-07-27 14:21     ` Mojca Miklavec

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