diodorus
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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
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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!
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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!
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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.)
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thanks, attached! I am not familiar with SignBlazer but my aim would be to bypass software like that, and simply send HPGL files to the cutter... are you on Win on Mac? bezier.hpgl