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Looking at that dxf file, it's not as clean as the original line drawing. I've spend the last hour trying to get somewhere in inkscape...
I started with a png file, thought it'd work to convert to pdf. apparently I was wrong...

"It's a simple line drawing" she said
"How hard can it be?" she said

I was able to do this in school, but that was with masterCam9 and I cannot afford that software.

banana.pdf [img]/home/chuck/Desktop/clipart/banana.pdf I want to turn basic line art type clipart into gcode for my engraver. So far I've just been able to "import" the pdf or png file but I see no way to convert it into lines that CAM can turn into the needed gcode. the clipart stays as an image o...

I'm evicting Microsoft from my life and using Linux mint cinnamon. I installed qcadcam a few weeks ago, it ran fine but now it wont start. the icons and qcad executable (572 bytes) is marked as program and executable flag is set. It opens with a text editor instead of running as executable. I may ha...