Great tutorial. I spent hours in Fusion360 trying to turn a dxf into a cuttable project and had a heck of a time...project turned out fine but now I can just use Inkscape. Thanks for saving me hours...
I’ve had a CNC plasma cutter for 2 years and have yet to cut the first part. The software is killing me. Thanks for sharing, I’m motivated again. I’ll give you a shout out on my channel when I share my first cut -Spanky
Well done. I do tutorials the same way... Showing what happens when it goes wrong. That's way more valuable than sterile tutorials where everything goes perfectly.
I've been trying to figure that out myself. There might be some settings somewhere to help with that. If you solve it put a comment here to help others too
You missed the part where the floating pieces needed to be connectes to create one compound shape to avoid everything falling apart and showing more than one method for joining together. Trace bitmap function doesnt work everytime but it is nice when it does.
@@WeBuildStuff Such a nice and polite reply to a rude guy. Cool video. Explaining short and clear, exactly my style. 30 mins of watching and I wasn't bored any second. I'm using a chinese CNC machine which comes with its program called ' FastNest' or 'FastCut'. I mostly cut only parts for pre-engineered buildings but now i would like to cut metal fence panels. I found a free dxf file, but when I introduced it into my nesting program it was so tiny, instead of being like 1550 square inches big. Searched on youtube how to scale a dxf file, and found your video with Inkscape. Do you have any tips for cutting metal panels for fences?
Great tutorial. I spent hours in Fusion360 trying to turn a dxf into a cuttable project and had a heck of a time...project turned out fine but now I can just use Inkscape. Thanks for saving me hours...
This was a great tutorial on Inkscape. Ive seen others but this one was just so simple to follow and understand. Thank you.
Please share it if you found it helpful!
best tutorial i never found before. step by step, easy to follow. Thanks a lot, you make my day.
Thanks so much!
I am working on a free PDF as well with more tips and tricks
holbrooktech.weebly.com/designing-for-cnc-plasma-cutting.html
This is exactly what i was thinking about, you read in my mind. Thank you so much!
I’ve had a CNC plasma cutter for 2 years and have yet to cut the first part. The software is killing me. Thanks for sharing, I’m motivated again. I’ll give you a shout out on my channel when I share my first cut
-Spanky
Well done. I do tutorials the same way... Showing what happens when it goes wrong. That's way more valuable than sterile tutorials where everything goes perfectly.
Fantastic video. Great instruction.
Thanks for the video. Would love more like it.
Super helpful video, thank you!
thanks
Awesome video!! Such a good teacher, your students are very fortunate to have you teaching?
Thanks Russ/Mr Bowhunter!
thanks so much. I am trying to move from en route to inkscape. question, how is the kerf compensation generated?
For us that is done in a separate piece of software attached to our plasma cutter called SheetCam TNG
@@WeBuildStuff thank you. so, you use inkscape and sheetcam for your project to be able to cut. correct?
@@gambhirahcaitanya4393 Yes you can see the process starting at 21:40 :)
Why didnt the fill tool fill all the way to the line? I need it to go to the line as the dimensions are important.
I've been trying to figure that out myself. There might be some settings somewhere to help with that. If you solve it put a comment here to help others too
Did you save the DXF file anywhere for download - thanks for the lesson
There are links to download the files here
holbrooktech.weebly.com/inkscape----plasma-cutter.html
awesome
Awesome x2
Link to Inkscape please
In the video description:
holbrooktech.weebly.com/inkscape----plasma-cutter.html
@@WeBuildStuff Thank you!
What are you trying to do? Make a long video and confuse people? Trace bit map, it becomes a vector save it as a DFX done.
You missed the part where the floating pieces needed to be connectes to create one compound shape to avoid everything falling apart and showing more than one method for joining together. Trace bitmap function doesnt work everytime but it is nice when it does.
@@WeBuildStuff Such a nice and polite reply to a rude guy. Cool video. Explaining short and clear, exactly my style. 30 mins of watching and I wasn't bored any second. I'm using a chinese CNC machine which comes with its program called ' FastNest' or 'FastCut'. I mostly cut only parts for pre-engineered buildings but now i would like to cut metal fence panels. I found a free dxf file, but when I introduced it into my nesting program it was so tiny, instead of being like 1550 square inches big. Searched on youtube how to scale a dxf file, and found your video with Inkscape. Do you have any tips for cutting metal panels for fences?