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Using Inkscape with Cutters/Plotters Having Trouble with infill and Area
  1. #1
    shintashi shintashi @shintashi

    Hello!

    I am new to inkscape (about 1 week) and acquired it for my desktop 3 Axis CNC machine and have been able to use inkscapes bitmap trace and gcode extensions to successfully make a smiley face, an almost decent vitruvian man (his face was reduced to sawdust from the tiny lines overlapping) and most recently but accidentally a TRACE of the svg of a Kakashi face.

    That's where the progress of learning hit a brick wall.
    I have included the original JPG which i converted to an SVG using inkscape,

    as well as the result cutout on a piece of scrap black coated particle board, called kakashicut.

    Basically, it traced the lines of the shapes, but didn't fill any of the areas. I tried using the area tool and it made little lines like an onion, but I couldn't figure out how to send those lines to a .ncc gcode file.

    Kakashicut
    Kakashi
  2. #2
    shintashi shintashi @shintashi

    I found a work around using a KM Laser extension.