I am brand new using inkscape. I am trying to use it with a little homemade laser engraver. Ive gone through some little tutorials, showing use with the laser engraver extension.(I plan on using the file with grbl). I click the extension, and it asks for a filename with ".nc" extension. I cant find the file that i assumed it was creating.. what am i missing? Thanks

Hi.

Which extension did you use to make your nc file?
(There are several!)
What OS are you using?

Normally the extension would write to your "'home' directory.
Have a look at the Preferences - System dialog.

Thanks for reply... this is driving me crazy..
i downloaded it from http://www.instructables.com/id/Pocket- ... are-ready/

it was just called laserengraver..
I did a search of my drive and didnt come up with anything with an ".nc" file extension

Sorry, OS is windows 8.1

Hi.

When I run this extension on Inkscape 0.91 I get the "unittouu" error, the code has to be changed to work on 0.91.
It's just an easy fix. You can find the modified version of laserengraver.py in the attached zip file.
Do this ONLY if you are running Inkscape 0.91.
Unzip the file and place where you have the original file. (overwriting the original)

If the extension is running on your system using Inkscape 0.48 you will find the file in the directory you specified in the extensions dialog - preferences tab.

If you find nothing in the directory the reason might be that the extension did not produce a file.
Untick the suppress all messages and tick the generate log file tickbox as in the example below.



The extension work like a charm on my system running Inkscape 0.91 and Win8.1.
Unfortunately I got no access to a laser-cutter/engraver but looking at the g-code
in openSCAM it looks like what I had in Inkscape.

thanks for the fast reply .. I tried it but still dont see any file in my c:\output directory. after hitting the laser extension I also told it to generate a log in c:\output\ same as where I told it to save the .nc file.. I have to go to a meeting will check back later.. Fantastic Help! tks

Hi.

For the log output to work you have to specify the full path including filename as in my example dialog.

That did it... Thanks so much!.. Now I just have to learn Inkscape....