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Cut out boxes and other stuff with a laser cutter

florian-festiFlorian Festi 07/01/2016 at 09:090 Comments

Converting the data from SVG turns out to be a drag although it is convenient for editing in Inkscape. So I had a look at an free SVG to DXF converter but had no luck. Turns out the Cairo graphics library Boxes.py is using can also generate postscript files which can be turned into basically everything with pstoedit. So I added support for DXF, PLT aka HPGL and some sort of gcode. Feel free to open a ticket or PR on github if you are interested in other formats. Unfortunately pstoedit is currently not available on my server so the web interface there does not offer those formats yet.

I also finally finished the treasure chest lid for box2 and also added lids with hinges - both single and double sided. Next thing will be creating latches and locks to make the lids stay closed.

Our laser cutter remains a source of grief, though. Looks like Reci produced a whole batch of broken laser tubes. The one our laser cutter finally came with - the third one - broke on us after just two hours of use. So many of the shiny new features are still untested. Feed back is welcome.

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