Is anyone aware of an extension or other tool that will optimize the cutting order of paths for a drag knife vinyl cutter?
I don't know if there is a a gcode based extension ?
However I did have a look this in a previous thread.
It was a request to restack layers to correspond to selection order or travelling salesperson TSP routing.
Half way down this page https://inkscape.org/forums/extensions/objects-to-new-layer/
Is as far as I got.
I am still working on it at the moment. I'm working through some advise the author of python-tsp gave me for doing start point to end point, then end point to start point for each path.
I wonder if this extension will help: https://inkscape.org/~EllenWasbo/★reverse-order-of-subpaths
It's the order of routing for each path (like tunnels) - the picture towards the bottom of this page - this is as far as I have got.
https://github.com/fillipe-gsm/python-tsp/issues/28
I'm not that good at maths - but hopefully I will solve it, thanks to the very generous help of the author fillipe-gsm.
Note that cutting optimizers also determine paths that are nested inside of closed paths, in order to cut those first. This is common in CAM programs.
Using Inkscape with Cutters/Plotters Cutting order optimizer
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Is anyone aware of an extension or other tool that will optimize the cutting order of paths for a drag knife vinyl cutter?
I don't know if there is a a gcode based extension ?
However I did have a look this in a previous thread.
It was a request to restack layers to correspond to selection order or travelling salesperson TSP routing.
Half way down this page https://inkscape.org/forums/extensions/objects-to-new-layer/
Is as far as I got.
I am still working on it at the moment. I'm working through some advise the author of python-tsp gave me for doing start point to end point, then end point to start point for each path.
I wonder if this extension will help: https://inkscape.org/~EllenWasbo/★reverse-order-of-subpaths
It's the order of routing for each path (like tunnels) - the picture towards the bottom of this page - this is as far as I have got.
https://github.com/fillipe-gsm/python-tsp/issues/28
I'm not that good at maths - but hopefully I will solve it, thanks to the very generous help of the author fillipe-gsm.
Note that cutting optimizers also determine paths that are nested inside of closed paths, in order to cut those first. This is common in CAM programs.