Re: New CorelDraw to DXF Export Tool announced for CNC users

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "afogassa" <afogassa@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "caudlet" <thom@> wrote:
> >
> > While CorelDraw offers a lot of advantages for CNC artwork
> creation by
> > using various sources of fonts, clipart and vector editing

tools,

> it
> > lacks any file export for standard CNC import that is not

segmented

> > (made up of line segments).
> >
> > We have been working on a plug-in for CorelDraw that replaces the
> > internal DXF export to give perfect exports of CorelDraw objects
> > (Circles, Bezier curves, Text, etc) and preserves the arc
> information.
> >
> > If you use,or are thinking of using, CorelDraw to generate

artwork

> for
> > decorative cutting, then this product will be an invaluable

asset.

> >
> > Our new DXFTool for CorelDraw (ver 12 or later) installs in

minutes

> > and is easy to use.
> >
> > Certified to work with SheetCAM and VCarve.
> >
> > For a Free 30 day full featured demo download the software from
> >
> > http://www.CandCNC.com/DXFToolDetails.htm
> >
>
> Can you make it to be compatible with coreldraw 9 ?
>

Unfortunately versions before 12 did not fully support Visual Basic
for Applications. You could write scripts to do a lot of things,
but there was a wall between the internals and true programs.
DXFTool takes advantage of the power of VB to work seamlessly with
Corel in the 12 and up versions.

I used ver 9 for almost 5 years and I love it. It's stable and
everything works. 10 and 11 were disappointments and I skipped
them. I started using 12 right after it came out and was about
ready to go back to 9 because of problems and then they issued SP1
and fixed the issues. Once you get used to using it, 12 is a
powerful tool and the pure drawing and CAD like features are
impressive. I really like the dynamic snap tools that make aligning
objects, finding the center of holes and objects and doing quick
dimensioning a lot faster.

DXFTools is the first in a series of tools we plan on introducing
for CorelDraw to make it easier to do CNC.

I am starting to see good deals on ver 12 show up on the Web. If
you are comfortable with ver 9 it won't take you very long to move
those skills to 12.