From my point of view, I'm for bundling it with Inkscape (Windell - thanks a lot for sharing this and all the interesting work you do for and with Inkscape!). The extension works fine and as described in the article "Hershey Text: An Inkscape extension for engraving fonts" (tested with Inkscape 0.48+devel r10039 on OS X 10.5.8). I humbly suggest that it should be considered for possible future inclusion with Inkscape.Īdditional discussion and documentation about the extension has been posted here: go/hershey
#Inkscape gcode engraving zip
To solve this issue, I have written an Inkscape extension (Attached, a 70 kB ZIP file) that allows the user to render simple text strings, using one of several Hershey-designed (public domain) engraving fonts. Preparing toolpaths for creating text with an extrusion-based 2D or 3D fabricator Preparing graphics a printed circuit board with minimum trace width requirementsĨ. Preparing a file to be drawn by a pen plotterħ. Preparing a file to be engraved by a rotary engraving toolĦ. Preparing a file to be milled by a CNC routerĥ. Preparing a file to be fed to a paper or vinyl cutterĤ. Preparing a file to be fed to an embroidery machineģ. Preparing a file to be printed on a vector-mode laser engraverĢ. Here are some examples cases (and, just ones that I have personally come across!) where lack of engraving fonts support is an inconvenience in Inkscape:ġ. The fabrication tool resolution is non-negligible, so that the stroke width is an important part of the character shape The fabrication time depends on the total path length (e.g., pen plotter, vinyl cutter, milling machine)Ģ. Engraving fonts are ones where the visible portion of any given character is the *stroke*, not the *fill*.Įngraving fonts are commonly used when producing text-containing files that will eventually be fed to fabrication tools, when either of the following two conditions is true:ġ. Inkscape does not presently support single-stroke or other stroke-based fonts, also known as engraving fonts.
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