Hi I am new to inkscape and using the SO-1 printer. my goal is to not actually draw, I just want the printer to follow a path. I dont care about any programming that pertains to helping the machine draw better on paper. Attached is the path I want the printer to follow. It needs to make a single continuous path from one end to the other. Is there an easy way to import and export gcode for following a single pass line from one end to the other? I find myself having to go through and manipulate the Gcode and delete all of the pen up and down commands and just leave the G1 commands.

The problem is it tries to draw the circles first. How do I make it a one pass constant line as if I started from one corner and never picked the pen up?

When it draws elements separately these are not well connected I guess - select with the node-tool one point at the transition from half a circle to horizontally line and click&drag to check it´s connected:

Here´s the drawing as one continuous path from the minimum of 96 nodes for you to check.

Still not able to get a single pass. I made sure the sketch was continuous as you pointed out, but same problem. Here is the file. Im not sure how to flip the direction or manipulate the arrows of the machine path in order to make it continuous. 

It isn´t continuous - it´s a group of 33 objects:

Gotcha I see that now at the bottom. So it looks like I grouped it into one object, but still looks like it doesnt take 1 continuous path?

Ungroup - Path->Combine - select everything with the node tool except the first and the last node and go "Join Selected Nodes":

Awesome, got it now. But it starts at the opposite corner of home, is there a way I can switch it to start from the home position? 

Path->Reverse probably?