Is Carbide Create having problems

[luc.onthego (Luc)]

Sorry my bad, here is the VCarve, hopefully, it will be what you want.V-Carve 1 test.nc.zip (15.7 KB)

[ClayJar (Nathaniel Klumb)]

Yep, that’s a V-carve. It’s still made up of only linear G1 moves (no G2 or G3 in the text of the file), but I can tell you that you created it for a 60-degree (included angle) V-bit.

If you import a V-carve with a non-matched angle, you get really fun results (more pointy, if you’re assuming a narrower angle, hehe).

[ClayJar (Nathaniel Klumb)]

Okay, starting a new thread for the initial release of my new Inkscape extension, ImportGCode

ImportGCode -- An Inkscape Input Extension

[ImportGCode_VCarve2] Okay, I don’t imagine I’m perfect, and I still don’t have a good, complete set of G-code files to throw at it for testing, but it looks like I’ve reached the point of being able to throw an initial public release of my new Inkscape input extension up on GitHub. Creating G-code from a design is a transformative event, and depending on geometry and exactly what you’re doing, some details (e.g. sharp inside corners) cannot ever be represented fully by the output. I’ve been…