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by glococo
Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:57 am
Forum: Inkscape & Cutters/Plotters
Topic: Strokes to polygons
Replies: 10
Views: 6427

Re: Strokes to polygons

Hi Lazur, The right process I follow was: (F1), Select all & Ungroup (F2) , Select all & NodeUNION (symbol in fill&stroke) Break apart selected nodes (icon) Stroke to paths Join Selected nodes (icon) UNION Versions: 0.48.4 This process is incredible incredible incredible slow. So maybe a...
by glococo
Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:35 am
Forum: Inkscape & Cutters/Plotters
Topic: Strokes to polygons
Replies: 10
Views: 6427

Re: Strokes to polygons

Many people complain about bad quality export in eaglecad and other electronic cad programs in gerber. If you are a manufacturer, you have to paid for a gerber panelizer program. and I want something free. Paid solutions likes ViewMate work flawless. I think we should make a gerber panelizer here in...
by glococo
Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:31 am
Forum: Inkscape & Cutters/Plotters
Topic: Strokes to polygons
Replies: 10
Views: 6427

Re: Strokes to polygons

Eureka ! I found the solution. Im out of battery, gime some hours and post the result with pictures.

meanwhile it was from initial:
ungroup
stroke to path
breakapart selected nodes
stroke to path
combine selected nodes
UNION !
by glococo
Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:10 am
Forum: Inkscape & Cutters/Plotters
Topic: Strokes to polygons
Replies: 10
Views: 6427

Re: Strokes to polygons

Hi Lazur! Yes, EagleCAD has a very precarious export option, and I found one way to reach the laserplotter: 1) Export from eaglecad in Gerber (http://bayimg.com/naNjfAaea) 2) Open gerber files with opensource Gerbv and export again in SVG 3) open in Inkscape, <b>convert strokes to paths</b>, and exp...
by glococo
Sun Jun 02, 2013 10:35 pm
Forum: Inkscape & Cutters/Plotters
Topic: Strokes to polygons
Replies: 10
Views: 6427

Re: Strokes to polygons

Hi and thanks for your replies, I was trying to convert those strokes to a nice polygon, since my laserplotter need a polygon to fill. A was thinking in UNION, but for some reason, is not working as expected. I take again a portion of the design, ungrouped and break apart everything. Then, I chose U...
by glococo
Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:19 pm
Forum: Inkscape & Cutters/Plotters
Topic: Strokes to polygons
Replies: 10
Views: 6427

Strokes to polygons

Hi ! I would like to convert this attached graphics to plt or dxf in full polygons format. However Im finding troubles in converting strokes/paths to polygons Some programs (like eagleCad) export polygons like strokes or paths, and I need for the laserplotter a polygon to fill it. No strokes. I ungr...

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