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On 7/27/2017 3:52 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hi,
I just wanted to say that I found a more reliable way to go from metapost to dxf.
First run "context something.mp" and then
pstoedit -dt -f dxf:-polyaslines\ -mm something.1 something.dxf
For some reason the SVG files from metapost get wrong dimensions when converted via inkscape, but pstoedit works super reliably.
in that case you can consider: mp -> pdf -> mudraw/mutool -> svg
Mojca
On 29 June 2016 at 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hi,
I want to play with CNC and don't yet have any experience with CAD software (nor the licence for the expensive ones) other than perhaps some Blender, so I decided to try to use the super ugly route with metapost -> svg -> dxf -> g-code for the first time.
I have a few questions.
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(3) Is there any way to convince the SVG output mode to generate something like
(4) Does anyone have a better proposal for conversion into DXF (or G-code)? I'm currently playing with FreeCAD and I've seen some tutorials showing that AutoCAD can open PDF directly, but I don't want to buy AudoCAD just for the sake of converting files.
Thank you, Mojca
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