cutting vertical lines on ULS M30 machine
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
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Bug Description
I am currently using Corel Draw X5 with the ULS M30 laser cutting machine. This works fine, however, personally, I would prefer to use something Opensource, like Inkscape.
The problem with Inkscape is a weird bug when cutting vertical lines. For some reason, when I try cutting a rectangle, it cuts the top horizontal line perfectly, but then goes stupid. Instead of cutting a vertical line the laser oscillates back and forth over the hoizontal line, cutting tiny <1mm cuts to start both the left and right vertical lines. Then it moves the laser down <1mm and again cuts tiny marks on both the left and right vertical lines.
Corel Draw works fine, which makes this even more annoying! Inkscape does eventually cut the rectangle, but it is so slow because of the way it handles vertical lines.
Inkscape V0.48.2 r9819
Windows XP Sp3
Likely related to (or actually a duplicate of one of):
Bug #630639 “Printing to Laser cutter rasterizes images”
Bug #966244 “Direct print to lasercutter”
Please read the comments in both reports for a possibly solution.