Cleaning SVG lines generated in CATIA V5 using inkscape

[AlexandreBessy]

Hello,
I have designed a few parts in CATIA V5 (which I am familiar with) created SVG files and tried them in easel and the result wasn’t good. I am trying to clean the svg in inkscape but i need pointers because my knowledge of inkscape is limited…
Software used: Easel; CNC machine: Maslow

I have included two files (hopefully it worked): one is an example of the svg file that I am having issues with (there is more reason why I am trying to understand how to fix it) and an image of an attempt to fill the shape which is not conclusive either…

Any help would really be appreciated…
Alexandre

[RussellCrawford]

All of the lines “nodes” aren’t connected, I’m not familiar with InkScape enough to fix this so I used CorelDraw. Maybe someone who is more experienced with InkScape could help.
I wasn’t able to join all the nodes so I converted the outline to an object and welded them together.
Hope this helps,
Russell

Train Tracks

[NeilFerreri1]

@AlexandreBessy
In Inkscape:

1. Everything is grouped
   
   
2. You’ll want to ungroup (Ctrl+Shift+g)
   
   
3. From there, you’ll want to Combine the paths (Ctrl+k)
   
   
4. Select the node editing tool, and select all nodes (Ctrl+a)
   
   
5. Click “Join Selected Nodes”
   
   
   
   
   
   6.You should be good to import into Easel!
   
   

But…looks like you might have a scaling issue with your original SVG.
Purpley box is about the cutting area of a 1000mm X-Carve.

[AlexandreBessy]

That is simply amazing!!! thank you both for your help!

Concerning the scale, Maslow has a cutting area of 48" by 96" so all good.

Thank again!

[NeilFerreri1]

@AlexandreBessy

Maslow

Ahhh…makes sense. Also, I should read more carefully.

[AlexandreBessy]

One additional question:
After the steps you provided all the shapes are joined and easel is adding only 4 tabs for all of them. I would like to separate them to add tabs on each one. I tried to use the un-group function as your first step but it does not work…

Any hint?

Edit: Playing in easel I increased the number of tabs and moved them on the different shapes that does work…

Thank you
Alexandre

[NeilFerreri1]

Select the combined vector.
Ctrl+Shift+K to break apart.
The objects should be individual paths now.

[AlexandreBessy]

Thank you again!!! it worked perfectly.

[NeilFerreri1]

No problem. I just want to see these giant train pieces done!

[AlexandreBessy]

Me too! but total I have 11 4’*8’ 3/4" plywood to cut… it may take a little bit of time (especially since Maslow is known to be inexpensive but slow)…

[NeilFerreri1]

@AlexandreBessy Get those cut yet? I wanna see pics!

[AlexandreBessy]

Hello,
Pics you will have sadly not much progress made… I started to cut test pieces for a feel on how it was going to look like (in a crappy material) but that made so much dust that I had to move the machine outside and then it stopped working… so I figure out what the issue was, cut cable, but took forever for something that stupid.
Here is the only pics that I have so far:

[3 new items added to shared album] Sauna

But as soon as I have made more progress I will ad pictures.
Alexandre

[AlexandreBessy]

way too optimistic as a first maslow project…