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And Ruby really is a funny language and simple to use: After all, it wasn't that hard, and I really like the object-model that I can access with ruby.

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I'm a software developer, but ruby is not my primary environment (which is C++ in embedded environments): In fact, I just tried to find out how to get the things working. If these are all things that I've made 'bad', then I'm happy.

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If you wrap your code in a module when you can use an instance variable inside that module instead. Anything starting with capital letters in Ruby are constants.Īnd I also advice against using global variables. I also noticed that you have several methods starting with capital letters - which is not the Ruby convention. These ends up being added to the Kernel class, which is included in Object which then again means they'll get inherited by every other class around.īecause of that it's recommended that you wrap your whole plugin in a module - isolating your plugin from the rest of the environment. I noticed you have several methods that's not inside a module or class. I noticed you said they where for personal use - but since you posted the link here on this forum I'll provide some notes about writing plugin in general ensuring that they don't clash with anything else. I had a look at the source code of the plugins on the page you linked to. I have not tried it yet, but it should also be possible to use my SVG script, so there is another path from Inkscape to Milling: You design your 2D idea, and then you can give the paths a Z-Value and control and edit the order and direction of the milling path, all within Sketchup: Should give a nice way to engrave 2D Images on a 3D surface. At least for very simple files this should be possible: Simple = only using G00 and G01 commands for milling, no loop and variable instructions etc. It would be interesting to read back existing G-Code files and store the paths in the model. It is likely you will edit this script to add the commands you need. This allows at least to store a F Command to the file. The second script gcodeattrib.rb allows to add attributes to edges and groups: the values of these attributes are written to the g-code file. The whole path (or line) should not contain a loop: Exactly one start point and one end point. Then you place a line upwards to a Z-Position you want to place the milling head before going down. Then you add lines to the 3D Space around your design where the milling cutter should run (The old outliner.rb script might help a bit here)

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You can download them (and my older scripts) here: To make it even more useful (at least for myself), I've written two more (simple?) scripts.

It works well on my linuxcnc installation with Wine. Long time without using Sketchup I came back to use it with my milling machine.

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