Digital Designs and Scientific Hardware - Open-Source Lab: How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs - page 204

FIGURE 6.42 Arduino green light.
FIGURE 6.43 Connected and ready for use.
Next, you will want to make a design to weld. This is done by drawing the design in Ink-
scape and exporting GCode (similar to the slicing that takes place for the RepRap in order to
tell the tool head where to go). The process is as follows:
1. After installing Inkscape and GCodeTools following the instructions above, run Inkscape.
2. Open the file TEMPLATE.svg as shown in Figure 6.44 . The template has the working area
limits and other things necessary to generate the GCode correctly for this specific design of
open-source welding rig.