Re: digitizer probe and software

Hi Gordon,

Just got a look at an STL file. lottta triangles defined. Fred says
that Vector CAD/CAM 9.3 will export XYZ files. I can now too!

How is it that you can use JUST the "lines" in the DXF files? I thought
you were going for 3D in Rhino.

Yeah, gotta wait for the weekend.

Alan KM6VV


Smoke wrote:

>
> True, the .dxf file is just a bunch of lines (it's fairly obvious when you
> look at in enlarged 3D), but for my purposes, Those will do just fine. I
> think I can do the enlarge/shrink step in Vector as well and eliminate the
> necessity of having to even open Rhino.
>
> I don't think Rhino will convert the lines to an .stl file....but I'll check
> that out.
>
> I haven't looked thoroughly at the MAXNC post pgm yet either, so I'll check
> to see what else it does. Probably won't get a chance to do any more with
> it until the weekend tho'.
>
> Smoke
>
> > Hi Gordon,