Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Vector DXF to Paint Shop Pro Quirk

Hi Al,

I know the feeling! I have a "plot" (dry run) screen in my controller
program, and I run through the part files to get min/max for A,X,Y & Z
axis. No simple way to "map out" the limits of a circle (guess I could
work on that), but I do allow one to set the size and offset the view
(this is for Gcode and Gerber files). Your suggestion is the other
alternative (do rapids).

Alan KM6VV


alenz2002 wrote:

>
> I was checking out the various suggestions in response to Daniel
> Statman's recent thread (converting DXF to JPG) and ran into an
> interesting little quirk. Paint Shop Pro insisted on severely
> cropping my drawing. Like only getting the middle half. Turns out
> that this drawing had a circle for it's outer boundary,
> (flywheel).
> It seems that PSP scans the DXF looking for the min-max values for X
> and Y to size it's window. Apparently, for a circle, it only
> finds
> the numerical values of the center and the radius. Ran a few samples
> and confirmed that this is what it was doing. Drawing a rectangular
> border around the drawing makes it come out OK.
> al
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