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t-oster / VisiCut

A userfriendly tool to prepare, save and send Jobs to Lasercutters
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visicut gcode file #382

Closed brains12345 closed 8 years ago

brains12345 commented 8 years ago

Using Visicut to create a graphic gcode file, the file produced is 110% using pronterface, but I cant get visicut to print the gcode graphic file only a few lines. What am I doing wrong please?

mgmax commented 8 years ago

I'm sorry, but your report contains hardly any information to repdroduce your bug. Please try to rewrite your report so that someone not familiar with your situation can try it out and see exactly the same error as you did. You might consider this webpage as a rough guideline to writing useful bug reports: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

brains12345 commented 8 years ago

Perhaps I could rephrase my question! Please describe how to out put a gfile to the laser using Visicut? thank you

mgmax commented 8 years ago

Load your file, choose material etc. as usual. Instead of pressing "Execute", select "File -> Export Laser code" from the menu. Choose the directory in which the file should be saved, enter a filename (e.g. "test.gcode") and press OK.

mgmax commented 8 years ago

Sorry, I misread your question.

You can't send arbitrary gcode files from your harddisk to the lasercutter with Visicut. I don't understand why you want do that using Visicut; pronterface is the right tool for this.

Visicut is supposed to be used like this: You need to load some vector file (e.g. inkscape SVG) and Visicut will generate the Gcode for you and send it to the lasercutter. You could also save the generated Gcode to a file as I described before, e.g. to put it on a SD card which you later plug into the lasercutter.

brains12345 commented 8 years ago

Many thanks exactly what I needed to know.

On 25 Sep 2016 20:26, "Max Gaukler" notifications@github.com wrote:

Sorry, I misread your question.

You can't send arbitrary gcode files from your harddisk to the lasercutter with Visicut. I don't understand why you want do that using Visicut; pronterface is the right tool for this.

Visicut is supposed to be used like this: You need to load some vector file (e.g. inkscape SVG) and Visicut will generate the Gcode for you and send it to the lasercutter. You could also save the generated Gcode to a file as I described before, e.g. to put it on a SD card which you later plug into the lasercutter.

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t-oster commented 8 years ago

So this can be considered as closed?