If not then you can still create the paths it’s just going to be a bit more manual. If you have a graphics tablet then you should be able to draw the paths directly or even trace a picture. Makeblock’s software is a bit crap and I avoid it as much as possible but as I say even InkScape can’t do what you want very well and that is good software. There are lots of ways to generate these but generating them from a picture which is really just a grid of coloured squares is very hard and getting it just right is probably a highly manual process. When I say line I don’t mean a visual line, I mean a series of points for the machine to move between i.e. If you’re able to turn your images into a series of lines (in InkScape they’re called paths) then the machine will draw them perfectly. Ultimately all this machine can do is draw lines. This kind of hobbyist grade machine is all that’s left in that space for pen drawings.
The machine itself seems to be very well designed and performs quite nicely but the software is quite weak which makes sense when you consider that the primary market is educational/hobbyist where the results are secondary to the fun of assembly and debugging.Ĭommercial and consumer grade plotters don’t really exist any more having been supplanted by inkjet and laser printers even for very large scale architectural drawings. The plotter machine is a technical hobbyist machine rather than a consumer grade offering so it might be the case that you’re expecting too much from the software and the support around it. Converting an image into a line drawing is not an easy problem to solve with consistent results so I can forgive mDraw its issues. You can always use another program to convert image formats to something that mDraw can accept but I’m afraid that mDraw will likely perform the same way. I’m a programmer and I’ve been generating my own drawing descriptions (.cnc files) directly. Personally I’ve never used mDraw so I can’t speak to its capabilities or deficiencies.
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