CAD CAM EDM DRO - Yahoo Group Archive

CorelDraw 8 & KCAM

Posted by Henrik Olsson
on 2001-01-09 09:59:47 UTC
Hello,

I was wondering if anybody of you have tried that combination (CorelDraw 8 &
KCAM)?

I have KCAM set up for a tablezise of 300X150mm and in Corel Draw I click on
New and set the pagezise to 300X150mm. But I can't get it to work propperly
:-(

At first a simple square w/ a side of 100mm drawn in CorelDraw, exported as
HPGL and imported in KCAM showed up _very_ small and at the wrong 'place'.
After a bit of tweaking w/ the Scaling Options and the PlotterUnits?? (my
software is in swedish so I can only guess what it says in the english
version) I got the 100X100mm square showing up as 100X100mm square in KCAM.
BUT in the wrong 'place'.

In the HPGL Export window there is a setting to choose were XY=0 (I think)
and if I set that to 'Center Of Page' and move the center of the square to
the exact center of the page it shows up in KCAM w/ it's center at X000.0
Y000.0 and in correct size, so far so good.

However, if I change the 'Center Of Page' to 'Lower Left Corner' (again, I
can only guess what it says in english) it does _not_ show up at a center of
the 'table' in KCAM.

I think that it may have somthing to do with the scaling but I can't get it
to the correct size without changing the scaling to 253.8% and the
'PlotterUnits'?? (lower left corner in the HPGL Export window) to 10000.

Any ideas??
Thanks!

/Henrik Olsson. Sweden.

Discussion Thread

Henrik Olsson 2001-01-09 09:59:47 UTC CorelDraw 8 & KCAM