BezierSplineArcFittingScript
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| Hive13 Project |
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| Bezier Spline Arc-Fitting Script |
| Status: Active |
| Start Date: 8/8/2014 |
| End Date: ? |
A script, currently targeting QCAD, to convert a Bezier Spline exported from Illustrator into a Polyline containing line and arc segments.
There's actually no real reason for this since the approximation by tiny lines of splines is usually enough for a machine to work with, but theoretically conversion to a polyline with arc segments will allow for much less generated G-Code, and I am nothing if not theoretical.
Maths
Multitudinous maths coming soon.
Progress
Week of 2014-08-18
Made a final push to get the script working. It now successfully produces a polyline through one iteration of arcfitting with no spline splitting. Some curves are approximated pretty well, but particularly eccentric ellipses become lozenges, which is not desirable.
Week of 2014-08-25
Stubbed out guards (They all return false for now.) Figured at this point I should just convert it to coffeescript, which is morally and technically superior to javascript, and punt it over to github instead of dropbox.