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marianette
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Post New to Polargraph machines
on: September 2, 2015, 19:10
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Hello everybody! Nice to find this community.
My boyfriend and I are trying to get the hand of this machine, he is doing the electronics/mechanical part and I am doing the image processing part.

My question is so dumb that I am embarrassed to even making it but here it goes:
I have my SVG file, made with Adobe illustrator, and on the other hand the Polargraphcontroller software. How do I insert a SVG file in the Polargraphcontroller? It only allows me lo load an image file of JPG or PNG format.

I know it's very basic but I can't get it right please help

Thank you

Mariana
sandy
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sandy
Post Re: New to Polargraph machines
on: September 2, 2015, 20:26
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Don't worry Mariana! There are no dumb questions - only dumb software.

The feature you are looking for is "load vector".

Once you have loaded your SVG using "load vector", you can resize it, move it.

You can then specify an area to crop the SVG to, by using the "frame". Do this, by selecting an area, and then clicking "set frame to area". The frame is designated by some red crop marks at the corners.

If you haven't seen it, you might like to look through http://www.instructables.com/id/Polargraph-Drawing-Machine/step26/Vector-graphics-drawing/ which describes the process, and a machine build.

Good luck!
Sandy
marianette
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Post Re: New to Polargraph machines
on: September 2, 2015, 22:21
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Thank you Sandy! I'll check that link now!!!
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