I need a bit of help with Inkscape. I designed a layout for one of my trays but I can’t save it as a file that is compatible with laser draw. When I export the file as a png it’s all black and I can’t figure out how to save it as a bitmap file
I believe laser draw can read dxf. And inkscape can export DXF ? And also SVG…
Apology, a friend of mine recently bought a K40 and I know he told me he can open dxf or svg on his with laser draw…
Lets try, wmf… based on this link… it can open this file type…
https://www.daycounter.com/Articles/LaserDrw/LaserDrw-Tutorial.phtml
PS. I dont have laserdraw… i used to have moshidraw…
Also checked and open the wmf file… and it is not black like png
Did it work?
@Cesar_Tolentino I haven’t tried it yet we had a work function to go to tonight I got it to work kinda by using paint to convert it to bitmap but the low image quality gave me a jagged cut instead of a straight line
Is the PNG all black when you import it into LaserDraw? I imagine it is saving the background as transparent, so you may want to test putting a white rectangle behind everything in the image to force it to have a white background.
MoshiDraw added DXF importing about a year ago, but AFAIK, with a nano board and LaserDrw you’re stuck with bitmaps only.
You need to save as EMF format from inkscape, and laserdrw will happily load that. this is the workflow we use at our hackspace