Yes_cutoutcorrectpockets_herbk is the file made for me, it worked perfectly for what I needed, svg since they are more intricate shapes - I’m going to give inkscape a try but for now just need to know the correct solution for setting up an external cut followed by interior cut outs (that go all the way through the material and are not being milled) the old post said this was possible in the newer version of freecad, simply at a loss here, just need the step by steps if anyone can help! I’ll also attach the file that the user made for me (I’m having trouble finding the old post, have a feeling I accidentally have two accounts). I’ve read through the wiki but everything I tried never worked correctly. I posted a while ago regarding interior path cuts, someone graciously helped me out with the file, but I was left not understanding how to do it for myself, I’m attaching the file we would be cutting, ideally I’d be left understanding how to set up these external and interior cuts in the future. Werner, are you sure your PDFs are correct? The difference I am getting is easy to miss, particularly on a small part like this as its only about 1 or 2%.Hash: 980bf9060e28555fecd9e3462f68ca74007b70f8 Is your "page" in FreeCAD Drawing using the default A3? If it is, select A4 page size first. Just in case the bug is there.Ģ.25 times the size is close to the difference in scaling between A4 and A3, but in the wrong direction. I see that you using Windows so first thing I would suggest is that you go and make certain that you have the latest appropriate driver installed for your printer. I get a closer scaling but still not quite correct. If I use this defacto printer I get more control and can change the margins to zero. On Linux, I have another alternative, an in built system wide "print to file" "printer" to create PDFs from any application. If you do that it uses default margin values of something like 25mm and 31mm. Then open the svg in a suitable application (Karbon in my case) set the printer properties to margin values of zero all around and then print it on my new printer.ĭouglas, if you from the FreeCAD file menu "export to PDF" does it look close to correct? For me it will still be scaled wrong but only just by a small percentage. Hash: 5caf64e4c56f4314ad40435c0bc43bc0e495606cįor me the only way I can get it to print to scale is to use my newer printer, which allows border-less printing (as in theory does my old printer), export from FreeCAD Drawing WB as SVG file. ![]() I assume that you have discovered that you can select an item in the "Drawing" in FreeCAD and change its position on the paper and its scale factor? Your problem is not just that this scale factor is set to 4.is it? It is now very very late here (1:20 am) boxing day so I am off now but I will experiment some more over the next few days. I don't know why FreeCAD still seems to do this down scaling even after I have deleted the Margins where as Karbon doesn't. I think the software is scaling the print job so that it fits within the now smaller A4 page after it has removed the 3.18mm default Margin from the printable area, hence the small scaling difference (my 100mm is only physically 97mm). FreeCAD's output is the same regardless of the printer Margin settings for some reason or other. It prints perfectly on my new cheap printer, however my older printer scales it correctly but can not print the last bit of the page and gets confused.įreeCAD will not correctly scale the print out on either printer, my 100mm square is about 97mm. ![]() I have discovered that if I go into the printer properties in the print dialogue and change the printer "Margins" from the default 3.18mm to "0"mm all round then it will scale properly when I am printing the exported SVG from "Karbon" (the KDE SVG application). To get the new printer working I had to download the software from HP.(what a pain, normally on Linux printers just plug in and work). The second I bought only a few weeks ago but was a real cheapy from Kmart, I think from memory it cost only about A$79.00 but whatever it was it was cheap as #!. The first was an expensive "business quality" printer but is now something like 7 years old or maybe even older. One is an old HP deskjet 5652 and the other a new HP deskjet 3-in-1 3520. I currently have two printers on my system both HP. ![]() For starters Douglas this is complicated because the physical output of the printer is effected by several different things in this situation for example, the printer hardware, the printer driver/software, the application viewing the SVG file, etc.
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