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Re:Cartesio – Low-cost Cartesian plotter robot by romwell on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:16AM (#22244436)
I wrote code that generated this particular G-code for the Dragon curve.

In general, there's software to convert PostScript or DXF to G-code (used with e. g. engraving machines).

The G code to move in XY is simple enough (G0 x y) that you could write a converter yourself.

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Re:Cartesio – Low-cost Cartesian plotter robot by StavrosK on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @02:50AM (#22244820)
G code is simple, I'm just not sure how simple reading the curves would be. I worked around this by exporting as a png and having Cura slice that, then writing a script to extract a single layer. It works beautifully, now I want to see if I can make PCBs with it, it would be a revolution.
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