Re: Free G code Engraver Program

Carken at www.deskam.com is making availble a feeware engraver program that
will read True type font and generate the G code . Look under downloads

Here is what it says in the Help file.

DeskEngrave is a basic True Type Font to Vector converter that is released
as Freeware. Use with our compliments. For other products relating to the
CNC industry visit www.deskam.com. DeskEngrave will save files in standard
G-Code format or AutoCAD R12 DXF file format. It is as easy as entering
text and pressing the 'Enter' key.

It lets you set the size , the depth and other paramenter.
Best of all it is free.

Enjoy



-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Mauch <dmauch@...>
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, November 27, 1999 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] TkEMC

>From: "Dan Mauch" <dmauch@...>
>
>Sounds interesting. I'll have to try the Tk stuff out.
>
>I sent Fred Proctor some email about emcmot. The replied that the new
>version does not solve the problem. Seems that matt shaver has the same
>problem. The signals are bunched up .In any case he is working to sove

that

>problem.
>Dan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Falck <dfalck@...>
>To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
>Date: Saturday, November 27, 1999 5:18 AM
>Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] TkEMC
>
>
>>From: Dan Falck <dfalck@...>
>>
>>Over this holiday weekend, I've had a chance to play with the Tk port for
>>EMC. The computer that it's on isn't hooked up to a machine in my shop-
>>it's just for hacking so far. It's running the latest version of EMC on
>>redhat 5.2. The Tk GUI is a lot of fun to work with. It's easy to go in
>>and alter things on the interface. You can take out buttons that you

don't

>>want, change the size of slider bars, or alter the size of the positon
>>readouts. Currently, I'm making a big open space, just to the right of

the

>>axis readouts. This space is perfect for a small editor or gcode path
>>viewer. Tkpad is a small editor that seems to work well here. Now, I'm
>>trying to put some of the features of Tkpad -ie find, find and replace-
>>into the default EMC editor. I know just enough about Tcl/Tk to be
>>slightly dangerous.
>>The above mentioned Tk files are: /usr/local/emc/TkEmc (this is the
>>main file- you can alter the colors of the gui and the size of the axis
>>readouts) and /usr/local/emc/plat/linux_2_0_36/bin/tkemc.tcl (this is
>>where the particulars about buttons and sliders are).
>>If anyone else has some tips on hacking this thing, let us know.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dan Falck
>>
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