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Posted by Matt Shaver
on 2002-05-30 17:31:29 UTC
Fred Smith recently posted a link to his 2002 N.A.M.E.S. photos and one of
them showed a program I've been working on that converts .bmp format image
files to "g-code" for engraving purposes. An archive file of souce code and
GNU/Linux binaries is available from:

http://freesoftware.fsf.org/download/cncutils/

Give it a try if you're so inclined, and let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Matt

P.S. I'll soon be providing a DOS executable because I know that's what most
folks will want. I've just got to get a PC loaded up with FreeDOS and the
DJGPP compiler. If anyone else has such a setup and wants to try compiling
for DOS, that'd be good too.

P.P.S. My next idea is a "g-code" path visualizer using gnuplot.

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Matt Shaver 2002-05-30 17:31:29 UTC bmp2cnc