Re: Gcode optimization (rethinking>>>)

>--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "caudlet" <info@t...> wrote:
> 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.

Why do you have to mess about reordering dxf files.??
Any decent CAM program will take a dxf file, no matter how it's
written and generate the profile.
I use Dolphin and it does this with no problem.
If you bring say a hexagon into Dolphin as a dxf file and three lines
are drawn one way and three are drawn the other it makes no
difference. You tell it the start point and that it's a closed entity
and because it's simple it works out the the end point is at the same
place. No stupid arrows on the lines, just does it.
If you want to go the other way round just click forward, or reverse
If you want to cut outside just click cut right [ or left ]

Last guy to see arrows on a CAM system was Col.Custer.


John S.