![]() ![]() (Was uncertain about this, because nothing appears to happen when I do this).ħ) Select Extensions/Gcodetools/Tools Library. Sorry If I have done the picture upload all wrong - I had to find out how to do in in very short order.ģ) ‘A’ selected, then horizontal and vertical co-ordinates set to 0Ĥ) ‘A’ selected, and set to 100mm wide and 100mm high.Ħ) Select object (‘A’) and apply Path/Object to Path. Hi, Maren - thanks for your patience: below is my step by step approach, with screenshots - I hope its some help, because I have no idea. Its almost as though I don't have some necessary permission, but I don't know what.Īs far as I know, there is nothing unusual about my LinuxMint installation, and as I said previously, there isn't much else there to cause problems, so I'll search for a different application, or write the Gcode manually, as I used to do. I have searched for some kind of log file which may indicate what is going on, but nothing. It seems to me that more than likely something in my configuration is causing the problem, but with no way to diagnose what or why, I am stuck. I purged the latest Inkscape, and installed 0.92.5, with exactly the same results as with the later version. ![]() I've tried the various extensions mentioned above, and followed your instructions carefully - regarding the 'path to Gcode' step, when you mention go to the 'path to Gcode' tab before pressing apply, Inkscape issues a warning if you don't do that, but no matter what I do, in every case, when I try to produce an output file, I get a message telling me Inkscape cannot save. Well Guys, I much appreciate your attempts to help me, but I'm getting nowhere. Its also the final step of the process, so quite time-consuming to test each time. It would help if I could find some kind of diagnostic help to try and trace the cause of the problem - Inkscape only tells me it cannot save the GCode file - no reasons, no help, no indication why. The only thing I can see that I could do now is completely clean off one of my computers, re-install a basic Linux OS, then re-install Inkscape, but thats a very drastic step which I am reluctant to do. There is some stuff online (but nothing I could find in the Inkscape Forum, Bugs, etc), so I was following help on other sites - but they all apparently have working GCode tools - so I came to a halt. I have slowly taught myself to produce 2D drawings with it, and was very happy with the results, so then decided to transfer them to GCode - and came unstuck. I also wanted to so some simple 2D CNC stuff - such as experimenting with milling printed circuit board, and Inkscape seemed perfect for this, so that was why I started to use it. I also want (eventually) to use CAD with the machine so I have FreeCad installed. As I have been learning what to do with CNC, I have installed various things like Candle2 and UGS. (but the problem is present on 2 other 'fully-eqipped' machines). It is a basic Linux MInt installation (which I have used for many years), and almost all the normally installed applications have been removed, because on this machine I have no need of them. One machine is a relatively new Vivobook, which I bought to run my 'machine' software on - like my CNC machine. I do appreciate that my particular machine configuration(s) may be causing the problem. I am at a bit of dead end now - I have done things like remove and re-install Inkscape, with no luck. I was unable to find anything related to my problem, so perhaps the way to go is a bug report. I have already searched through the bug reports, with no luck. ![]()
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