The words it uses to explain the processes bear no resemblance to any ‘proper’ cnc terminology.Īlso it only produces the code for the paths you draw, some additional G-code will be needed to create a proper functioning program, more on this later.

The first task to accomplish is to get familiar with inkscape, you could try and figure it out yourself, but I would highly recommend a dedicated course. Udemy have a good selection to choose from including the one in the link below which I can recommend. To add your own header create file “header” in the output dir.) I have copied and pasted the first few lines of G-Code that Inkscape produced for my small bat shape below.Īs you can see the header is very minimal and the first move is a rapid move down to Z axis zero*. So what we need to do is add a proper header and footer.Īlso note that the Z axis depth is at zero all through the program, this is not what I wanted but is very easy to change. I am going to paste in the header and footer from my article ‘ G-Code programming for Dummies’ overwriting the ones created by inkscape. Here are the first few lines of the program with my header pasted in and a few minor modifications. Read the notes in the brackets to see what I changed. (changed the Z axis depth to what I want)

Inkscape for dummies