[solved] Drawbot 2.5 Issues Importing Gcode

[Anonymous]

I’ve run into the problem of “Text to GCode” not importing correctly.

If I import:
“G00 X0.0 Y17;” (At simplest)

I receive:
10 line segments.
33.5858cm
Estimated draw time: 5s s

Noting that 10 line segments is a bit much and the drawing was coming out ridiculous, I delved into the temp.ngc file:

M101 T45.72 B-45.72 L-61.05 R61.05 I-1 J1;
D1 L0.7 R0.7;
M06 T0;
G90;
G00 Z50.0 F150.0;
G04 P50;
G00 F3500.0;
G0 X-82.042 Y-6.477;
G91;
G90;
G00 Z50.0 F150.0;
G04 P50;
G00 F3500.0;
G90;
G00 Z50.0 F150.0;
G04 P50;
G00 F3500.0;
G0 X-12.9539995 Y-250.444;
G91;
G90;
G00 Z50.0 F150.0;
G04 P50;
G00 F3500.0;

I understand the header formatting but the reasoning for all these extra commands is beyond me. Seeing as it is interpreting wrong, is there any way to forward gcode to the arduino without this broken filtering?

[Anonymous]

So after a few hours of troubleshooting this client and eclipse, I finally realized that “Text to Gcode” is not actually the gcode entry point but an interpreter to draw text, and the client just wasn’t displaying results for some reason. Sorry to bother you all but maybe this will help other beginners.

A possible change could be to alter the text in “GCODE > Convert Image” to something that references ngc, jpg, svg and any other formats you can import.

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