This angle, that angle, aaargh!
Posted by
Peter Chen
on 2001-04-04 05:48:53 UTC
This angle, that angle, aaargh!
Why are people so insistent on making life
"interesting" for us by having so many languages
(oral, graphic, machine, versions,
flavours/flavors.....)
Went to an exhibition on woodworking machineries,
trying to capitalize on the opportunity to get some
CNC work done on those monster machine. I took along a
dxf file generated using autocad R14, (tracing of a
logo over a raster image) making sure I saved in in
R12, R13, R14, LT dxf flavours.
I first approach Buselleto? who are using Alphacam on
a PC. They couldn't open my file. The signor tried to
explain in his spaghetti flavoured english something
about being careful with some program, something about
there being no lines although we see lines being drawn
with certain programs. I guessed he was refering to
raster/vector (not sure), and tried to explain in my
chop sui flavoured english that I used autocad, which
is vector. No comprehendo. Wonder if anyone familiar
with Alphacam would care to guess what our friend was
trying to say.
I had better luck with Bisse. They couldn't open my
dxf file either. Apparently, the drawings must be
saved on different layers, one for tooling, one for
toolpath, etc. Fortunately they had R14 on a notebook,
with which they opened my file. Ahhh! I had included a
text generated by autocad. That was erased. Still no
luck. Seemed the next culprit was the outline of the
handle of a knief - too many short lines. That was
erased and replaced by a very small numbers of lines
and arcs. There goes my beautiful rendering of an
artpiece!!! The drawings were placed in the proper
layers, transfered to their CAM program (does Bisse
use their own software or a third party?) and the logo
engraved on MDF in no time, plus trimmings!
Took the diskett over to Buselleto. They still couln't
open the modified file. Wonder why.
Was my problem too many lines or too short line
segments? Wonder if CNCPro or Flashcut would have done
better than those overpriced monsters/SW?
Peter
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Why are people so insistent on making life
"interesting" for us by having so many languages
(oral, graphic, machine, versions,
flavours/flavors.....)
Went to an exhibition on woodworking machineries,
trying to capitalize on the opportunity to get some
CNC work done on those monster machine. I took along a
dxf file generated using autocad R14, (tracing of a
logo over a raster image) making sure I saved in in
R12, R13, R14, LT dxf flavours.
I first approach Buselleto? who are using Alphacam on
a PC. They couldn't open my file. The signor tried to
explain in his spaghetti flavoured english something
about being careful with some program, something about
there being no lines although we see lines being drawn
with certain programs. I guessed he was refering to
raster/vector (not sure), and tried to explain in my
chop sui flavoured english that I used autocad, which
is vector. No comprehendo. Wonder if anyone familiar
with Alphacam would care to guess what our friend was
trying to say.
I had better luck with Bisse. They couldn't open my
dxf file either. Apparently, the drawings must be
saved on different layers, one for tooling, one for
toolpath, etc. Fortunately they had R14 on a notebook,
with which they opened my file. Ahhh! I had included a
text generated by autocad. That was erased. Still no
luck. Seemed the next culprit was the outline of the
handle of a knief - too many short lines. That was
erased and replaced by a very small numbers of lines
and arcs. There goes my beautiful rendering of an
artpiece!!! The drawings were placed in the proper
layers, transfered to their CAM program (does Bisse
use their own software or a third party?) and the logo
engraved on MDF in no time, plus trimmings!
Took the diskett over to Buselleto. They still couln't
open the modified file. Wonder why.
Was my problem too many lines or too short line
segments? Wonder if CNCPro or Flashcut would have done
better than those overpriced monsters/SW?
Peter
____________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @... address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
or your free @... address at http://mail.yahoo.ie