RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Free Software

Smoke,

Sounds like you are using a .dxf and Rhino is taking the units as inches and
when you go back the Modela software is looking at the now inch units as mm.
I have run into this same problem when exchanging files between programs.
Not a bug in the software as such, but more a symptom that .dxf files are in
undescribed units that it is up to the receiving program to determine.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> Upon opening the file in Rhino, the part was about 25 times
> larger than the original! I asked the dealer about this and they
> couldn't figure that out. fortunately, there is a "scale"
> button in Rhino that lets you shrink or expand a part to the size
> you want....and it works really fast!
>
> When importing a .dxf file to modela, the file shrinks! So then
> you have to know EXACTLY what your final part size needs to
> be...in at least one dimension before you can enlarge it to the
> size you want to machine.