SvgToGcode

Takes SVG and converts the elements in gcode instructions.

Last year in course of a month I wrote a simple application which takes SVG xml file and converts it to gcode. However, due to lack of time I wasn't able to finish it.

As of now the application has the following features:

• Nearly all primitves of SVG can be drawn
• Transformations like scale, rotate, translate, matrix have been implemented
• GUI for rearrenging the object on the platform
• Recursive best effort longest path searching algorithm

There are still many features I would like to implement and I belive are quite mandatory for succesful project:

• Filling
• Support line width, could be viewed as filling algorithm
• Automatic line invisibility test (detect where lines shouldn't be visible
• Scaling of the image
• Improved longest path algorithm, for example use djekstra algorithm to find the longest path
• Construct a new algorithm to detect the shortest path between multiple elements
• Support of multiple pictures in one workspace

Maybe the code for svg parsing will be useful for someone.

Original article: http://morf.lv/modules.php?name=projects&lasit=16