Hopefully I can post this here. Design program

I’d be using inches. But that I you. I’ll copy the extension in a bit and let you know how it goes. Thank you

Ok I did that. now I have this problem. I hit begin execute, it goes to the x and y, then z goes down until it trips the floating switch, then it backs up and goes down again tripping the switch for a second time. After this it just goes strait up and stops doing anything. Linux says floating switch activated program paused

Ok so scratch everything. I’m beyond annoyed with this especially since it’s the last step to getting my machine finished so I’m trying to figure out what I can. With that I deleted Inkscape completely. I have now installed Inkscape again, i now have version 1.01 here’s my issue now

Extensions> Gcodetools> tools library> click plasma then apply

I receive this error message:

Fatal Python error :Py_Initialize: unable to get the locale encoding
imporError: No module named ‘encodings’

Current thread 0x00007fa821f93700 (most recent call first)

I think there might be a confusion between Python 2.7 and Python 3. This has some info.
stackoverflow.com/questions/38132755/imp...dule-named-encodings

This link seems to be talking about Ubuntu. I'm using Debian live. and i tried what it said there anyways but it didnt help. ive posted on multiple places and am still searching. no one seems to know

Ive started trying other programs bc im having an annoying amount of problems with inkscape. Im trying librecad now and like it so far. its easy and closer to what im use to. i have one question at the moment, how do i save files as gcode? what else do i need?


I have the same questions for FreeCAD

I never used both just Autocad but if librecad or freecad save in dxf format you can convert dxf to gcode, i read about it at cnczone, never converted anything yet. The gcode i know is from 3d printer and dont follow the standard i think.

Googled dxf converter
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Simple...NC_G-Code_Generators

Thanks. I’ll check tomorrow morning

I'm having trouble with the installation of dxf2gcode. when i download it it just shows up as a folder

Figured it out and no longer having that problem