Hi Nick and others
I've a little problem understanding witch internal units are used by gcodetools. I thought they where pixels (px) as pixels seems to be native inkscape internal units, according to units.xml I found in /usr/share/incskape witch states px factor is 1.00000
Also I have read somewhere in this thread the best practice to use gcode tools is to draw things using px unit and assuming 1mm=1px.
Anyway, when I set inkscape to use px as display unit, and create a new document (A4 sheet), and I then run "orientation points", this is what I get :
The red square at the bottom is 100x100px. As you can see, the orientation points are quite... BIG, a lot bigger than the document itself. And the point along X axis where the point (100.0,0.0) is does not look to be placed according to some logical value. X=1333px exactly.
Now I change the display value to "pt". Now this is what it looks like :
Now you can see the point (100.0,0.0) is corresponding exactly to 1000pt. Looking at the units.xml I see scale factor for pt is 1.33333333 so now the previous X px value for the point makes sense.
But what does not makes sens to me is : Why the plugins seems to use pt (*10) as internal units instead of px ? and why is the output such big that is does not fit in the document size ? The same thing happens with "tool library" the created tool description is bigger than the document.
I used gcodetools in the past and I had not such problems.
I use inkscape 0.91 and gcodetools 1.7 (provided with inkscape)
best regards
bricofoy
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