I make my designs with Inkscape by importing bitmap files. In my current design I have filled polygons. When I try to produce G-code and simulate it, I see only the contours being milled. I will attach the SVG file.
How can I activate the filling of certain polygons?
I just found out that if I click the "Extrude" button, I get the filled in parts in the example window, but while simulating still only the contours are done.
BC
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Extrusion is the conversion of 2D model into a 3D model. I am not sure, that this is helpful for you with your mdel.
Since pycam does not support specific operations for parts of a model, I would suggest, that you split your model into parts that you want to engrave along the outlines and the parts that should be filled. This should allow you to select the proper engrave operation to each polcgon.
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You can choose the strategy "engrave" and pick a "pocketing" mode.
Probably you will need to apply the "revise polygon directions" action onto the model first, since pycam uses the direction (clockwise, counterclockwise) for determining "inside" and "outside".
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After half an hour Pycam is still calculating but the progess bar hangs. I had this as well in the 0.5.1 version. Not sure why this happens. It does shows a warning about a missing openvoronoi library.
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Hi,
I make my designs with Inkscape by importing bitmap files. In my current design I have filled polygons. When I try to produce G-code and simulate it, I see only the contours being milled. I will attach the SVG file.
How can I activate the filling of certain polygons?
Cheers,
BC
I just found out that if I click the "Extrude" button, I get the filled in parts in the example window, but while simulating still only the contours are done.
BC
Extrusion is the conversion of 2D model into a 3D model. I am not sure, that this is helpful for you with your mdel.
Since pycam does not support specific operations for parts of a model, I would suggest, that you split your model into parts that you want to engrave along the outlines and the parts that should be filled. This should allow you to select the proper engrave operation to each polcgon.
Hi Lars,
thanks! When I split the design into filled out parts and contour parts, I still face the same problem: how do I tell Pycam to fill in?
Cheers,
BC
You can choose the strategy "engrave" and pick a "pocketing" mode.
Probably you will need to apply the "revise polygon directions" action onto the model first, since pycam uses the direction (clockwise, counterclockwise) for determining "inside" and "outside".
Hi Lars,
while doing this I get:
No trace models given: you need to assign a 2D model to the engraving process.
my model is a SVG though, which should be 2D. What is going wrong?
cheers,
BC
OK, it seems I had to explicitly select a model in the process tab. It's calculating now.
BC
After half an hour Pycam is still calculating but the progess bar hangs. I had this as well in the 0.5.1 version. Not sure why this happens. It does shows a warning about a missing openvoronoi library.
The openvoronoi library is optional - you can ignore this. I will reduce the verbal severity of this message.
Did the process succeed?