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| ====== graphtec inkcut configuration ====== | ====== graphtec inkcut configuration ====== | ||
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| + | Memory of the install and configuration of a Graphtec Silhouette [[https:// | ||
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| + | ===== Requirements ===== | ||
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| + | ===== Prior installs ===== | ||
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| + | * Inkscape | ||
| + | * pygtk and gtk | ||
| + | * python-serial | ||
| + | * python-cups | ||
| + | * librsvg2-common | ||
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| + | ===== Things to know ===== | ||
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| + | Graphtec has some specific software for their cutters, I never used it, supposedly it only works under Mac or Windows, so it was no use for me. I design most of my graphic stuff with Inkscape, so having a plugin that controls the cutter straight from Inkscape was my goal. It ought to be possible to do it under Linux OS, too. | ||
| + | Normally, cutters use a protocol that is called HPGL, but Graphtec uses his own, which is GPGL. Luckily, some clever guys worked out a way to generate GPGL commands from Inkcut. | ||
| + | I'm a lazy guy thant knows very little about installing and configuring things, so you will surely find many missing info, | ||
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| + | ===== Steps followed ===== | ||
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| + | * After installing all the dependencies, | ||
| + | * I uncompressed the tar.gz and copied its contents to home/ | ||
| + | * Maybe this was only my problem, but the owner of the files was root, so I switched it to myUser with: | ||
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| + | sudo chown -R myUser: | ||
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| + | * With this, Inkcut appeared in Inkscape on the extensions menu, but we had to do some other things. | ||
| + | * Add the Silhouette Portrait in " | ||
| + | * In Inkcut, select "GPGL plotters (Graphtec)", | ||
| + | * Sometimes, when I draw a path on Inkscape, it misses to cut the last segment (you can watch it on the preview window). Normally it fixes simply selecting the path and applying " | ||
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| + | That's it! this kind of led me to have a Graphtec cutter working... hope it helps a bit, maybe sometime I'll include some screenshots... | ||
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