using silhouette

[mrbluematrix]

Hi, Thx alot for your work, I try to use your python script with my shilouette portrait, please let me know the command to cut a svg file. thx alot.

[boeckhoff]

There is no opensource software to convert SVG to GPGL (the format that silhouette uses) so far. Its also quite complex because SVG supports lots of different features which would all have to be translated.

[Jachimo]

So this is probably not a path suitable for actual usage, but as possibilities for piecing together some software that could be reused to make this happen...

https://github.com/pmonta/gerber2graphtec takes Gerber files and converts them to Graphtec, which is apparently the underlying "GCode"-esque format used by Silhouette cutters

There are some tools available that let you go from SVGs to Gerber; mostly these are designed for people doing circuit board work, but they exist.

Maybe the libraries could be chained together in some way to remove the intermediate step of the Gerbers, and go direct from SVG to Graphtec. Anyway, just wanted to bring everyone's attention to the Gerber2Graphtec project in particular, since I think reverse-engineering the Graphtec format seems to be a solved problem at least.

[boeckhoff]

@Jachimo actually, the team I worked with decided to build a solution exactly for this, its opensource now that the project has ended and can be found here:

https://github.com/LinePod/SvgConverter

Have fun!