OpenSCAD (and my use of the wrong primitives for the dashed lines) didn’t do a great job converting lines and text in the original EyeTracktive Core design, into a format that works well for a plotter pen marking out the headset.
I just tried to manually create a better overlay in Inkscape (as a stop-gap) and ran into a few problems.
- Text doesn’t naturally convert to single stroke paths (obviously, if you think about it). In Inkscape Extensions->Render->Hershey Text… comes to the rescue. This creates plotter friendly text.
- However, it dumps this text somewhere fairly random outside the page border (on my machine at least) so you need to hunt it down.
- It then turns out that it uses the SVG transform element (matrix transform) to position the text you’ve just created in the correct position (as you drag-drop). This is incompatible with Cricut’s crappy DesignSpace software, which doesn’t understand transformation matrices, so it just ignores them.
- Solution : Ungroup each text element individually, as Inkscape seems to only wrap groups in transform matrices.
