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Andy1978 / hf2gcode

Generates g-code from text with a hershey font
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Added some flags to make scripting easier #1

Closed jackcarrozzo closed 9 years ago

jackcarrozzo commented 9 years ago

With my additions, one can do this:

./hf2gcode --no-post -o /tmp/out.ngc -q -s 0.1 -y 1 "hi" && ./hf2gcode --append -o /tmp/out.ngc -q -s 0.05 -y -1 "hello"
Andy1978 commented 9 years ago

Hi jackcarrozzo, thank you for your additions. May I ask in which use case you use hf2gcode and do you have an image from the machined component?

jackcarrozzo commented 9 years ago

So far I've used it to generate and format text of various sizes and "mill"/print them with a pen in a drill chuck - I can nab a picture for you this evening. I'm hoping to use it with my 2w laser next. The gothic fonts are really exceptional, I'll be sure to take more pictures.

jackcarrozzo commented 9 years ago

Here's an example of what I was doing with multiple sizes in one run:

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Andy1978 commented 8 years ago

Really cool. Have you build your laser in the meanwhile? Here a user build a live preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D3hMXP5-QM which might be also interesting for you.

Btw, can I use your image above on the hf2gcode wiki as "example in the wild"?