Re: Optimizing cutting paths - The proof

Hi Chris,

Yeah, love 'em. I was able to get the Gcode from FlashCut into Vector
CAD/CAM, AFTER I removed some spaces between the X, Y, I, J's, and the
value. I keep forgetting that Vector doesn't like that. Not hard with
a text editor. The arc statements were mostly fine.

Can anyone get ACE to convert it? I haven't opened up the DXF file in a
text editor to see what's inside.

I don't think a Zip would help... Or is there something I'm missing
here? I think John's vers. of AutoCad or whatever just likes different
ENTITIES then what either Vector or ACE like. Don't ask me what,.. yet!

I DID read in FlashCut's Gcode, and then play with it in Vector. I got
three arcs to do the inside end of some of the segment cutouts. The
tiny one in the middle drove a piece of code I'm working on crazy! And
vector says the arc center of this tiny arc is the CENTER of the WHEEL!
It "flips" the other way, to connect up the two quarter arcs that make
up the little end of the segment on some of the segments (I didn't go
through them all). A little quick work with Vector and I used the tiny
arc as a point, removed the two quarter-arcs, and replaced them with a
nice half arc. Then made appropriate copies.

Alan KM6VV
(still learning)

Chris L wrote:

>
> I think John will need to Zip the file up. I couldn't get a different DXF
> file into Vector because the formatting was no longer correct.
>
> Flashcut probably reads it as a text file without formatting, thus opening it
> without issue.
>
> Don't you just love file transfers ?
>
> Chris L
>
> Alan Marconett KM6VV wrote:
>
> > Thanks John!
> >
> > I've downloaded the DXF file, and I found that Vector CAD/CAM, TurboCad,
> > IntelliCAD and ACE don't like the file format!
> >
> > I WAS able to load it into Flashcut (and generate a Gcode file), and
> > see/print it in my BobCad demo. Hopefully I can find a work around to
> > get it into Vector!
> >
> > I took Flashcut's generated Gcode and imported it into Vector CAD/CAM,
> > but the large circles (rim) and some of the small arcs are off. I'm
> > going to try to figure out what is off in the arcs.
> >
> > I might just walk through the Gcode and/or the DXF file and try to see
> > what's going on... I'd like to be able to understand what the problem is
> > (and fix it!).
> >
> > FlashCut's Gcode must be a slightly different flavor then the iso (?)
> > vanilla flavor I'm accustomed to working with. Seems like the Arc's are
> > not relative I & J? I haven't found a control for that in FlashCut.
> >
> > Alan KM6VV