ERC TimSav - Cheap DIY CNC Foamboard Cutter

[Foamforce]

here is the code that it puts out.

How are you generating that? Are you going to file>save? The gcode is generated by opening the extension from the extensions menu, entering the path and file name, and clicking Apply. Is that what you’re doing?

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

How are you generating that? Are you going to file>save? The gcode is generated by opening the extension from the extensions menu, entering the path and file name, and clicking Apply. Is that what you’re doing?

Here is a video I made showing my steps to generate gcode

 

[Foamforce]

Here is a video I made showing my steps to generate gcode

Ok, you’re just looking in the wrong place for the file. When you have the plug-in open, the path and file name in the plugin popup is where the file goes. What you saw at the end was just when you saved changes to the original SVG. In the pop up, you were saving to c:\users\public. You’ll find the file there.

PS, posting the video was a great idea!

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

Ok, you’re just looking in the wrong place for the file. When you have the plug-in open, the path and file name in the plugin popup is where the file goes. What you saw at the end was just when you saved changes to the original SVG. In the pop up, you were saving to c:\users\public. You’ll find the file there.

PS, posting the video was a great idea!

Thanks I will try it tomorrow

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

It worked I found it thanks!

Ok, you’re just looking in the wrong place for the file. When you have the plug-in open, the path and file name in the plugin popup is where the file goes. What you saw at the end was just when you saved changes to the original SVG. In the pop up, you were saving to c:\users\public. You’ll find the file there.

PS, posting the video was a great idea.

 

[Foamforce]

I cut vinyl today and it came out better than expected. The cut was very clean and applying it was easier than expected. This is Dollar Tree vinyl, so $1.25 for a 12x48” roll. I used about 20”, of each color, so this is about $1.

 

[luvmy40]

I cut vinyl today and it came out better than expected. The cut was very clean and applying it was easier than expected. This is Dollar Tree vinyl, so $1.25 for a 12x48” roll. I used about 20”, of each color, so this is about $1.

That looks great! How did you hold it down for cutting?

 

[Foamforce]

That looks great! How did you hold it down for cutting?

It didn't take much because the needle doesn't move it around around or pick it up at all. I just put a few pieces of scotch tape around the corners. However, it may have helped that my pattern lends itself nicely to hiding any imperfections. It it had to be perfectly flat, I was thinking that a bit of temporary spray adhesive would work, because that would go on the vinyl's removeable backing.

 

[azamKL_2]

Hello...
I think I'm the last to do it, but it was a nice job and I had good experiences. I drew the counter parts completely myself, of course my visual source was Timsav
I made the first cut today. I think I will do good work. Many thanks to my friends who helped me.

The Z Axis with a stepper motor is something promising. Do you anywhere can I print the STL for it? If possible to also guide on how to control the stepper motor with it. That would be great.

 

[Foamforce]

I've updated the Inkscape extension to work with Inkscape 1.3. I started with the updates that @CapnBry made in this post, which added the ability to create the full cuts, score cuts, and all other types of cuts in a single file. After that, I made the following changes:

• Fixed scaling issues.
  • Explanation: Up until Inkscape .91, the internal resolution of Inkscape SVG files was 90dpi. Version .92 changed the internal resolution to 96dpi, which is what caused the scaling issues we saw. 90dpi was hard-coded into the plugin so I switched that to using an Inkscape API that performs the appropriate conversion using either 90 or 96.
• Fixed an issue with missing cuts in SVGs made in new versions of Inkscape.
  • Explanation: Older versions of Inkscape appear to have always put the path's stroke color in the style attribute of the path and that's where the plugin expected to find it. At some point a newer version of Inkscape switched to putting the stroke color in a discrete attribute. I changed it to look for style attribute first and then check for the discrete attribute next.
• Fixed a warning about a deprecated function called simpletransform.composeTransform().

I only did light testing on this. I tested with older files created in Inkscape .91 and with newer files created in Inkscape 1.3. That said, there are certainly going to be bugs and crashes when more people try it.

Could somebody give it a shot and let me know if it works? Please only try with the latest version of Inkscape (1.3).

Update 10/27/23: No sooner than I processed my next file, I found a couple bugs. I've updated the attachment with the fixes.

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

Hello everyone
I am having issues with the vacume pad that I made. It id not getting enough suction for it all to properly come down. What size of vaume are you using and any other tips would be appreciated. Thank you!