VisiCut - a userfriendly tool for laser-cutting
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Getting the source code

VisiCut and LibLaserCut are available under LGPL in a common GIT-Repository at GitHub.
To clone into that repository use

git clone --recursive git://github.com/t-oster/VisiCut.git

Compiling

It is recommended to compile this project with Netbeans >= 7.0.1. However with the new build.xml file it should be compilable without NetBeans, as long as a recent java sdk and apache ant are installed:

ant jar

You can run the application after compiling with:

java -jar dist/VisiCut.jar

In Linux environments you can install it via:

make -e PREFIX=/usr install

And to create the distribution packages for Mac OS and the independant ZIP you can:

cd distribute


./distribute.sh