Hi I have a ox cnc machine and would like to cut thin pvc foil with it. The foil is approx 0,5 mm. I usually cut (by hand) many different shapes and sizes. Until now I have used the CNC machine to do solid objects and used Solidworks and then exported and converted to gcode. Since the foil will be cut with a drag knife tool mounted on the CNC, and the cutting speed is more or less set the same, is it a smarter way to make the gcode so that I dont have to draw everything in Solid before I cut? Thanks, BR K
I believe your question is; Is there a way to generate gcode from your line drawings without having to model them first. One route that may work is scanning your drawings into a picture document. With the black and white picture file you can try opening it in F-Engrave and generating a path from it. This will probably take a bit of tweaking of the picture and software plus trial runs before you find your go to settings for Fengrave and the picture. There's also the inkscape software out that I believe has gcode capabilities, but I haven't used it much to comment.
