F-Engrave is a text or image to g-code program (for both engraving and v-carving). - Home

Demo

• Prism Shaped Name Plate

Tutorial / Doc

• V-Carving Tutorial
• How to Generate G-Code Using F-Engrave

Install

The last thing before trying to run fengrave on linux is to change the line endings from DOS to Unix. => is it usefull ?

$ sed -i.bak 's/\r$//' f-engrave.py

POTrace

$ sudo apt-get install potrace

TTF2CXF_STREAM

$ sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
$ cd TTF2CXF_STREAM # in f-engrave directory
$ sudo make install
# test
$ ttf2cxf_stream

Fonts

First you want to create a font directory in the fengrave directory to keep your fonts in.

$ mkdir fonts