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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: CrystalWizzard on September 12, 2016, 08:29:21 PM
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HI all,
I am very much a noob to Inkscape though I have been trying for the past couple of weeks to work out how to do this. I will also apologise in advance that my use of language is probably not that technically correct, just trying to explain things as best I can.
Situation;
I have a laser engraver which can burn wood. That's my end goal :)
And I've achieved this to some degree but not exactly what I wanted.
The line drawing I have is very simple
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The issue I am experiencing is that when I "Object to path", "Stroke to Path" or "Trace bitmap" (as my step along the way to generating the GCode)
The result is the path runs both sides of the line:
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I've tried to alter the settings on each of the "Object to path", "Stroke to Path" and "Trace bitmap" to try to get a single pass but am not having any luck.
I have been trying to go in and delete the unnecessary paths but the process is extremely laborious. It's not that I don't mind hard work just hoping that there is a simpler solution.
I've also included a Zoom in on the original image. I understand that the reason for the two paths is that the line is more than one pixel wide. [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Welcome aboard!
Just recently this topic (http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=30119) was posted.
I'd say you may find an automated way for centerline tracing but that probably won't work so well on lines intersecting.
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Hi Lazur,
Thank you so much. Greatly appreciate it. The other thread has exactly what I need (well on the surface it looks perfect, will let you know in about an hour once I've traced and burnt)
Can also see why I couldn't find it, I need to get more use to he vocabulary,
Any way,
Thank you again so much for the support and assistance.
Jon