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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, slice&dice said:

    diodorus, I have CoolTerm running, and have no idea how to work it. It will NOT 'open' the file (it allows only .stc files to be opened, which are related to the connection, but not to the text/code/data file you created). Now, honestly, I'm trying to be Cool with you here, but this is pretty sophisticated and detailed stuff, and on this sunny Saturday morning in Baltimore, I have many other things to accomplish.

    If you want to private message me an operational tutorial on the exact steps to take for this to proceed, I'll look into it later on.

     

    Oh, and by the way, opening your file in Notepad only shows the data that appears on the right side of the image above (FileMagic screenshot) and the other two tables to the left (00001-00005 lines and their respective lines of code 43 4e 3d etc. ) are not there.

    IN;
    SP1;
    VS8;
    PA1000,5000;
    PD;
    BZ2000,8000,4000,2000,5000,5000;
    SP0;
    PU0,0;
    IN;

    Thanks again, much appreciated. (By the way, those few lines you see in notepad is exactly what that file contains, that's it!)

    I'll send you the instructions about CoolTerm in a private message, if you could do that final test it would be fantastic.

    Thanks!

  2. Posted

    27 minutes ago, haumana said:

    i would think that if the OP is looking for HPGL2 compatibility, that they would post a .hpgl2 file, not an .hpgl

    Hi, the extension is irrelevant. Often they are actually saved/renamed as ".plt", but that's not important: what matters are the commands within the file.

    Thanks!

  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, slice&dice said:

    Took your file, tried to open it with FileMagic (googled how to open this type of file, and FileMagic was suggested, so I downloaded it, installed it -----   the .Net Framework 4 was required as well, which I don't need nor want on my computer, but I'll uninstall it after this experiment ----- and lo and behold, gibberish.

    Thanks for trying! The .hpgl file is actually a simple text file, you can open it with notepad, no need to use any specific software.

    You'd only need a terminal program (like https://freeware.the-meiers.org/ For XP, this version in particlar: http://freeware.the-meiers.org/previous/CoolTermWin144.zip ) to pass the file to the cutter without the need of any other driver or cutter-specific software.

    (By the way: passing these hpgl text files to a cutter/plotter with CoolTerm is what  am currently doing with a simple HP plotter from the 90s. I know this method works also for these cutters, the only things I am not sure is whether they can handle additional HGL2 commands, like the bezier curve command "BZ..." in the test file I provided.) 

  5. Posted

    Hello,

    I am considering getting a Liyu (TC or SC). I would not use the cutter with any specific software, but rather create HPGL files myself and sent them to the cutter via a serial port terminal application (CoolTerm, for example).

    I know that Liyu (and I guess any other) cutters "understand" HPGL files, but are they also compatible with HPGL2? In particular, I am looking to use Bezier commands, which are implemented in HPGL2 but not in HPGL.

    Any idea? I could provide a simple test HPGL2 file, if anyway is willing to test this for me..?

    Thanks,

    diodorus