Geomerative RStyle strokeColor confusion

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Geomerative RStyle strokeColor confusion

in Contributed Library Questions • 2 years ago

I have been trying to find the stroke colors of an SVG file using the Geomerative Library.

The file has three lines in three different colors.

I think that the solution relies on RStyle and strokeColor but I am confused as to how to implement these for each path or layer of the SVG files.

right now, I have the SVG file as a shape, then I iterate through each point in each path using .getPointsInPaths();

These x, y values are sent to my CNC, Ideally I would like to have the color of the line act as a different Z axis.

Is there a way to see what color the stroke of the current point is? or do I have to take apart the RShape in a different way?

when I was playing with the strokeColor, I was able to get an odd number that didn't represent a color.

any help is appreciated.

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ricardmp

Re: Geomerative RStyle strokeColor confusion

2 years ago

Hmmm... I don't know if I understand quite right the context or goals. But if what you are trying is to have several different paths in an SVG I would use groups in your SVG editor (it's similar to the idea of layers in raster image editors). Then using geomerative you can iterate through the children property of RShape:

http://www.ricardmarxer.com/geomerative/documentation/geomerative/RShape.html#children

Note that SVG is hierarchical so each of the children might have another set of children. Also note that every node in this hierarchy may also contain some paths to be sent to your CNC depending on how you created your SVG:

http://www.ricardmarxer.com/geomerative/documentation/geomerative/RShape.html#paths

Finally I would also consider using the ID property in the SVG file. This way, later from geomerative, you can access such paths using:

http://www.ricardmarxer.com/geomerative/documentation/geomerative/RShape.html#getChild(java.lang.String)

hope it helps

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