Open the File menu and import one or more SVG files. Click 1 or more paths. Click "Create Operation" after you have finished selecting paths. You're done! Open 'View->Simulation', or 'View->Gcode' to view your tool paths. Customise the operation to your tastes. Save your gcode.

Drill Engrave Inside Outside Perforate Pocket

Select a project stored in this browser. Display units, does not affect Gcode generation. Diameter of the cutter. For a V bit, diameter of the widest part of the bit. Angle between axis of rotation and the cutting edge of a tapered cutter head (V Bit). 90° means a flat bottom tool, while 20° would be a sharply pointed bit. Maximum depth the tool should plunge each pass. Use a smaller pass depth for harder materials and better quality. Pass depth should never exceed the height of the cutting surface on the tool. If this is blank, it will use the Tool Defaults/ Percentage of the tool diameter the tool should step over each time around a loop. Smaller values produce better cuts and reduce tool wear, but take longer to complete. If this is blank, it will use the Tool Defaults. The speed the tool moves while not cutting. The speed the tool plunges downwards into the material. The speed the tool moves horizontally during cutting. If this is blank, it will use the Tool Defaults. How fast the spindle should run. If this is blank, it will use the Tool Defaults. Create tabs by decreasing the cut depth where paths cross the selected paths. Enable/disable this holding tab. Maximum cut depth over holding tabs. Delete these holding tabs The units used by the machine the Gcode is targeted for. The Gcode will try to switch the machine into these units using G20/G21, so you should only need to change this if the machine doesn't support these codes (or you are more comfortable thinking in inches!) Set the machine origin. "SVG page" will set (0,0) to the bottom left of the SVG page. "Bounding box" will set it to the bottom left of the bounding box around the toolpaths. "Centre" will set it to the middle of the toolpaths. Choose the origin that works best with your CNC machine. Extra offset added to the the machine origin. Width and height of the work. Move the tool to 0,0 after the last operation. How thick is the material. Where Z=0 is. How high to lift the tool when it moves quickly over the material. Increase this when using clamps or screws to fasten the material. Create a new operation on the selected paths. Enable/disable this operation. Only enabled operation are shown. By default operations are assigned a name that reflects the order they are added. You can personalise this here. Normally a deep cut is started by plunging the tool down into the work - by drilling a hole. Some tools or materials are not suitable for this, so a different approach is required. A ramp plunge is where the tool moves along the tool path while it also descends into the work. See here for an excellent explanation. What direction the cutter should travel. see Wikipedia for the pros and cons of climb versus conventional milling. Whether to cut On, Inside, or Outside, the selected paths. Open paths are always cut "On". How deep this operation should cut in total. Engrave a path wider than the tool diameter. Minimum number of line segments to convert a curve to. Curve conversion is done when something with a curve in it is selected. Minimum length of each line segment when converting curves. Curve conversion is done when something with a curve in it is selected. Only relevant when the `Join Type` is `Mitred`. There's a limit to mitred joins since offsetting edges that join at very acute angles will produce long and narrow 'spikes'. To contain these spikes, this parameter specifies a maximum distance that new vertices can be offset from the original polygon (in multiples of the size of the offset). When offsetting would exceed that maximum distance, 'Squared' joining is automatically applied. The default is 2, which is also the minimum. Larger values may produce spikes that are far slimmer than the tool diameter, so use with caution. Clear the Messages pane.

$1.$2=$3 is not supported; try Inkscape's Object to Path command. Holding tabs are cut deeper than the max cut depth and will be ignored. Loading project "$1". Loaded project "$1". Aborted reading project "$1". Error reading project "$1". "$1" saved in the browser. Project "$1" not found in the browser. Pass depth $1 < 0. Will be set to 0. Operation "$1" has a cut depth which is < 0. Will reset to 0. Operation "$1" doesn't generate any tool paths. Check that features are wider than the tool diameter. Loading SVG from $1. Loaded SVG from $1. Aborted reading $1. Error reading $1. Step $1: $2. At least one closed path must be selected to create tabs.