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Introduction

The purpose of the 'dxfgerber' program is to generate optimized DXF files for processing on a Gerber cutting machine. The software for this cutter is apparently not very intelligent and doesn't seem able to sort line and arc entities in a DXF file in a relevant order.

This software does two things;

• Look for lines and arcs that fit end-to-end (contours) and write them out in the correct order.
• Sort contours, remaining lines and arc in ascending order of their bounding box, sorting first on the y-coordinate, then on the x-coordinate.

There is also a related program that generates nc code for the Gerber cutter directly. This has not been tested yet.

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