SVG export from Easel

Hi @JoshuaEliser @AngusMcleod first off thanks for your feedback and discussion about Easel. I will say one thing I have learned in the time working on Easel is no feature has been trivial. If you think about it we are building CAD/CAM/Machine control all in the browser. Over time the capabilities have gotten more advanced but the perception of what Easel is has not changed. As we roll out V2.0 and of the API and incorporate 3D geometry the perception might start to change.

We did add G-code export in the machine menu so you can use any other sender or any other machine with anything you have in Easel. We haven’t added SVG export yet because until the pen tool was launched last week there wasn’t much you could design inside Easel so most people were doing design in Illustrator, Corel Draw or Inkscape or 2D or Fusion 360 or Vectric products for V-carving or 3D. We have a very small team and we are making a free app so we are forced to prioritize. Since people weren’t using Easel for design why spend time making an export when there are a million other features people were requesting including things like making it connect better to the X-Carve and Carvey on Windows. That project took a really long time and continues because Windows 7 does not play nice with the Arduino. @AngusMcleod is correct in that we work on it every week and we are trying to add as many good features as possible each week. Some recent ones were:

The pen tool
Carve time estimation
G-code sending

I’m sorry this particular feature hasn’t been prioritized yet.

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