Beginner Plasmac Questions

tommylight wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote:

tommylight wrote: dxf2gcode

Tormach uses this in PathPilot, mostly would be used for engraving on a mill. With their new 1300PL it will get a bunch more use I'm sure. I never knew it was a shareware.. I always thought they wrote it.

I did use it at the time of Ubuntu 10.04 and LinuxCNC 2.5 ( was called EMC2 then) but since gcodetools for Inkscape came out, i never used it again. It does work and it is simple to use.

It did use to be, I can't get it to run now...

The screenshot is from a Linux Mint 20 box, it runs.

tommylight wrote: The screenshot is from a Linux Mint 20 box, it runs.

I tried Stretch and Buster. It keeps telling me it can't find pyqt5 but it is there...

Try the buster version from here, it should work:
pkgs.org/download/dxf2gcode

tommylight wrote: Try the buster version from here, it should work:
pkgs.org/download/dxf2gcode

Thanks Tom, it install and opens but it crashes on every dxf file I tried. I went back as far as release 12 DXF but still no go. I do remember using it years ago.

Maby it is helpful: