Hopefully I can post this here. Design program

I’m having a bit of trouble with inkscape. I tried free as and it was kinda weird to learn so I looked some thing up about it and there were several who suggested Inkscape instead of free as for plasma cutters. What do I need to do to make Inkscape be able to convert to g-code?

I’m having some trouble. Is this right?

Set to plasma (done once)

Select drawings

Path to gcode

Set scale reference

Remove all lines besides m3 in the middle text box

Then Extensions > Gcodetools > Path to gcode > Preferences (edit folder location and name, some once) > Path to Gcode > Apply (which saves it to the folder)

If that’s correct then I’ve been doing it right. But it’s not working. Right now I just made a line so I can calibrate speed and all for a good cut. But when I save the file it doesn’t show up as an option to open in Linux so I have to widen the file type by doing all files. Then when I click the file nothing shows up

Also I just finished setting up plasmac. So does anything change with that or is that why I removed the m lines?

How do I make sure I have the must updated Inkscape?

You really are nice person. Help everyone, i wish your best in all senses, Tommy.

It says Inkscape 0.92, draw freely. The thing I hadn’t done was set it to parameterized gcode. It still doesn’t show up in until I make it all files. Now when i open it though it does show the line. But when I click go it says program exceeds machine max on z axis. Also the measurements are off


Edit: I edited the safe hight for the z axis so now it doesn’t say that it exceeds z max. But when I click for it to do the design the z axis doesn’t use the floating switch. It just moves down a bit

I thought plasmac was suppose to take over the z axis and require no gcode though.

Why might it be that The z axis isn’t doing what it’s suppose to then? When I load the preexisting examples files in linux the z axis works fine, using the floating switch that is.

Along with that when I load up the design form inkscape the dimensions are wrong

Oh btw I’m using Inkscape 0.92 draw freely