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Sumobot Jr. is an open source sumo design for Nodebots Day sumo competitions and similar
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Converting the psvg file to a PDF #4

Closed avermeulen closed 10 years ago

avermeulen commented 10 years ago

How do one convert the psvg file to a PDF? The the Laser cutting place I contacted asked for a PDF. So far I couldn't find a way to convert it yet. Maybe I need AutoCAD?

makenai commented 10 years ago

Hi!

So, first - psvg isn't a print ready format. It's an SVG (scalable vector graphic) that has a lot of variables you can change up. If you're interested in doing this, you can use the 'psvg' node package: https://www.npmjs.org/package/psvg - then you can edit variables and change the sizes of things if you wish.

However, if you just want the standard bot, there is a 3mm and 5mm wood version of the print ready svg file as well. You can open up an svg file in software like Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator and save as pdf.

If you know how thick the wood will be, I can convert to pdf for you. Just let me know!

avermeulen commented 10 years ago

I opened the file in psvg earlier today, but I had no idea what I was doing.

Where is the plain .svg file? Is it in github?

About the PDF's that would be great. Would you the able to do a 6mm PDF version please?

Thanks a lot for your help.

André

On 18 June 2014 00:12, Pawel Szymczykowski notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi!

So, first - psvg isn't a print ready format. It's an SVG (scalable vector graphic) that has a lot of variables you can change up. If you're interested in doing this, you can use the 'psvg' node package: https://www.npmjs.org/package/psvg - then you can edit variables and change the sizes of things if you wish.

However, if you just want the standard bot, there is a 3mm and 5mm wood version of the print ready svg file as well. You can open up an svg file in software like Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator and save as pdf.

If you know how thick the wood will be, I can convert to pdf for you. Just let me know!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/makenai/sumobot-jr/issues/4#issuecomment-46372559.

avermeulen commented 10 years ago

Ok I see in the psvg editor there is a material_thickness=5 is that the only thing one need to set, to adjust for the thickness. Before exporting to a svg?

I did a svg export earlier but svg to pdf conversion using Imagemagick didn't work to well.

makenai commented 10 years ago

Here you go: https://github.com/makenai/sumobot-jr/tree/master/cutting_plans/pdf

avermeulen commented 10 years ago

Thanks for your support Pawel!

I emailed the 6mm version for laser cutting. Let's see what they come back with. #excited!

André

On 18 June 2014 01:35, Pawel Szymczykowski notifications@github.com wrote:

Here you go: https://github.com/makenai/sumobot-jr/tree/master/cutting_plans/pdf

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/makenai/sumobot-jr/issues/4#issuecomment-46379461.

avermeulen commented 10 years ago

Thanks the laser cutters are happy. I should have some samples soon. A big thanks again.