Welcome! This is a GUI to use with an axidraw to draw Fresco json files.

Clone this repository, then, On linux: ./setup.sh On windows, double click setup.bat

Add your sketch somewhere within this directory or its subdiresctories. Make sure it imports the p5.Fresco utils.js and shapes.js scripts at the very least.

On linux: ./AxiFresco On windows, double click FrescoGUI.bat

Then navigate to whatever sketch you want to draw. When all is fine, press a. A new tab should open with your drawing previewed on the left. Firefox and Chrome may block the new tab so make sure to allow it.

If you want to use the GUI with a pre-existing file, simply lauch the axidraw.html file right after opening the server and load your file in the option pannel.

There is an HTML server which handles all html requests and which will allow running the p5.js/p5.Fresco sketches and all. This one talks on port 8000. Then there is a Flask python server which handles requests from the html page. It talks on port 5000. The Flask server will q commands, q that is then read by a dequeueing thread which owns the axidraw manager.