I am making a calibration sheet for a laser cutter. The laser need to fire a lot of points on the sheet which I record and correct for where I actually wanted it to shoot.
The shooting field is 370x370 mm. I want a grid of 19x19 cells, where each cell contains a reference circle, a reference length line and a grid-coordinate barcode (see attached picture).
I figured that I could use the build-in barcode renderer and create tile clones to repeate the cells. But I have two problems:
1) When I clone the tiles the width of the lines displaces the cells from where I want them.
2) I can't get the barcodes to change coordinates automatically. They should just encode the i,j grid coordinates.
I know that 2) this is likely an intractable problem. But any ideas would be very much appreciated.
Beyond the Basics Repeated graphics with barcode
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I am making a calibration sheet for a laser cutter. The laser need to fire a lot of points on the sheet which I record and correct for where I actually wanted it to shoot.
The shooting field is 370x370 mm. I want a grid of 19x19 cells, where each cell contains a reference circle, a reference length line and a grid-coordinate barcode (see attached picture).
I figured that I could use the build-in barcode renderer and create tile clones to repeate the cells. But I have two problems:
1) When I clone the tiles the width of the lines displaces the cells from where I want them.
2) I can't get the barcodes to change coordinates automatically. They should just encode the i,j grid coordinates.
I know that 2) this is likely an intractable problem. But any ideas would be very much appreciated.
#1 might be solved by placing a 19x19 rectangle having no fill or stroke in a group with the circle and line objects, then tile-clone the group.
#2 would be quite complicated, in my opinion. Not impossible, but not easy.