Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gcode optimization (rethinking>>>)

Supercam will allow you to load a .dxf file then display it (visualize
it). You can then re-order all the objects, however this is all a manual
operation i.e. select object on screen and re-number it, and the price
of the software is quite high $495.00 last time I looked.

This probably doesn't help.

Cheers,

Mark

http://home.inter.net/mthomas

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 23:21, caudlet wrote:
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Mark <mfraser@h...> wrote:
> > Think again about corel and DXF exports. ACE Converter from Yeager
> > does a wonderful job of optimization, starting with even line
> segments.
> > Allows you to specify the error in a segmented (exploded) line
> path,
> > and stays on the job to execute.
> >
> > There was a troublesome Harley Davidson logo that produced fits in
> > another program, but which executed about 10x as fast when ACE
> generated
> > the gcode.
> >
> So, if I build a DXF file and export it, then does Ace Converter just
> give g-code or will it reformat the DXF file (optimize it) so I could
> import it into my CAM program? I am trying not to be hard-headed
> about this, but the CAM program I use allows me to quickly build a
> visual model of the object, define feeds and speeds, and visually
> make rapid modifications. I hate to give all that up. The one thing
> it lacks is a toolpath optimizer (at least my older version). I have
> other programs that do have optimizers but they fall way short on the
> other end of ease-of-use and rapid design with 3D visual confirmation.
> Most of them apply the optimizer during the post process.
>
> Maybe I need to take this to the other side of the equation. Does
> anybody know of a DXF object optimizer? How about a CAM program that
> will read a DXF, put it on screen and allow you to select groups of
> objects to reorder? Worst case I will have to go back to the
> original and as one member suggested, trace on a different layer in
> the order I want to cut and then throw the base layer away. Now that
> I know about this problem I can nip it during the design phase. When
> you take vector art from external sources and use it to build complex
> objects you are at the mercy of how the original artist decided to
> construct it.
>
> I'm just surprised that someone hasn't made available a low cost g-
> code optimizer since in the final circumstance everything spits out g-
> code: the lowest common denominator.
>
>
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