From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Creating SVG: using MetaFun, exporting proper units, conversion to DXF
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 03:52:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBOmsbGWX_7vyoFdr+qf0e-8aXZ+GDK=+cXq60sf1OUEvAM7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsZ_e57=sMRL36Lrmg4yyikLK7A+g46ceBhWkv2f+BcB9w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
I just wanted to say that I found a more reliable way to go from
metapost to dxf.
First run "context something.mp" and then
pstoedit -dt -f dxf:-polyaslines\ -mm something.1 something.dxf
For some reason the SVG files from metapost get wrong dimensions when
converted via inkscape, but pstoedit works super reliably.
Mojca
On 29 June 2016 at 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> I have a few questions.
/.../
> (3) Is there any way to convince the SVG output mode to generate something like
> <svg ... width="100.0mm" height="100.0mm" ... >
> rather than
> <svg ... width="283.46456692913387" height="283.46456692913387" ... >
> because the program I use to convert SVG to DXF has troubles
> interpreting "points" properly. I read somewhere that they assume 90
> points per inch because that's Inkskape's default.
>
> (4) Does anyone have a better proposal for conversion into DXF (or
> G-code)? I'm currently playing with FreeCAD and I've seen some
> tutorials showing that AutoCAD can open PDF directly, but I don't want
> to buy AudoCAD just for the sake of converting files.
>
> Thank you,
> Mojca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-27 1:52 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
2017-07-27 1:52 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2017-07-27 8:49 ` Hans Hagen
2017-07-27 14:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
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