svgtogcode

Overview ¶

Binary svgtogcode converts an input svg file into gcode for an xy plotter. Apart from the file format conversion, it can scale the image, simplify paths, and sorts them to reduce pen movement.

An example use is:

svgtocode -in drawing.svg -size 270,180 -paper 297,210 -center -penup 35 -out out.gcode -simplify 0.1

Vector arguments, like -size and -paper take a pair of comma-separated values (no spaces). If the -out <file> ends in .svg, the output is in svg format rather than gcode format. All distance measurements are in millimeters.