3D printer with arduino

Using Arduino Programming Questions
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Hi, I built my own 3d printer using arduino and 2 stepper motors. It works and am I happy with it. In my code I send coordinates to arduino move the steppers accordingly.

So my question is this: I have an SVG file and I would like some tool or software that can read SVG file and export ALL of it's coordinates (x,y) to lines from A to B so my printer can go from A to B cause my code only accepts this instrunction.

I read a lot about polylines but I couldnt find anything to export SVG to polylines so I think I hit a dead end.

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Google "svg to cnc" and / or "svg to gcode"

...R

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@Robin2 thanks for your help but I certainly know how to use Google. Try yourself and check if you come with a good answer, me not.

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My understanding is that an SVG file is a drawing and you need to convert it into a series of instructions for stepper motor moves for your 3D printer.

The most common system for storing CNC or 3D printer moves is GCode.

Of course you will also need a program to convert the GCode into steps for the motors - but that is not so difficult. And I think the common 3D printer programs can take GCode directly. I believe there is a GCodeSender program that will send the GCode from a PC file to an Arduino.

If you have some different sequence of actions in mind you need to explain in more detail.

...R

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A person here javascript - Convert PATH from SVG to POLYLINE - Stack Overflow solved my problem! What I want is a process called "flattening" and after that guy tell me this I got the solution to what I wnated! Thank you anyway for you attention man :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the feedback. I had not realized that is what you were trying to figure out.

...R