I haven't been keeping up with this forum for awhile. Glad to see other people using Inkscape with vinyl cutters. I wrote this program awhile ago for cutting under WinXP to an old Roland PNC-950. Hopefully it will do someone else some good,
http://camm-gl.dyndns.org
Site needs alot more work. If there is enough intrest, I will continue.

If you haven't seen it already, you might have a look at this topic : viewtopic.php?f=31&t=4987 Another program for sending Inkscape drawings to cutters. Maybe collaboration would be possible? Just a thought

I am aware of InkCut. I have downloaded the extension and browsed through the code. Obviously frmdstryr has put a lot of work into it, more effort than I have given. Unfortunatly I need to get pygtk running on win32, before I can give it a try.

i use tux plot - another program that is in linux - but i am wondering the tux plot can be used for a roland or a graphtec - or even engravers ---can yours be used for other cutters or just the camm

Should work with anything that takes basic HPGL commands with a serial interface. Rolands CAMM-GL is HPGL stripped down to the minimum. I feel it is important to recognize the difference. CAMM-1 appears to ignore commands not in it's instruction set, under some very rare circumstances this could cause undesirable output. hpgl_output.py uses bare minimum pen up pen down commands, and I followed suit. HPGL has been around for so long any vinyl cutter that doesn't support it probably isn't worth buying. My experience has been limited to HP plotters, and Roland and Graphtec cutters, so I can't really comment on other devices. Any advanced features like setting blade force, etc. that can be set programmatically will have to be managed through the cutters controls, or added to the init string.

I'm not a fan of Linux on the desktop, so I have never used Tux Plot. After checking it out on the Internet, it looks pretty good. I couldn't see a good reason for anyone who is successful with Tux Plot or any other software, to even use my software. I consider the artwork generation and cutting two distinct operations. I was looking for a certain degree of control of how the vinyl was cut, and still easily use Inkscape without bouncing through different file formats. Not something like a print dialog, or I would have just used CutStudio. I'm not attempting to make a solution for everybody, just one that works for me and how I want to work. Hopefully it may help someone else out.