Originally Posted by
Metal-Mass
So is Inkscape an open source of Adobe Illustrator, cuz I have that and pretty familiar with it, but I could never get the export DXF thing to work right. For example if I typed something out and then went to edit the font to make it plasma friendly, and then exported it as DXF, only the lines i drew in to edit the font would show up and no words.
Right now I have been making the students use a Solidworks to make a sketch and then export it through a drawing as a DXF ( talk about the run around ) and then the dynatorch software will convert DXF to G-code. I would like to have more students be able to access this with out having to figure out something like solidworks.
So if I could have a program give me an offset path with leads then the DFX to G-code would work fine for the students.
What kind of files formats does SheetCam import/export
Thanks