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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Drawing into LC and then to Mach

« on: October 22, 2009, 12:35:03 PM »

open inkscape/open jpg
select area of jpg
path/trace bitmap
close trace
save as v12 dxf
open in l-cam

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Drawing into LC and then to Mach

« on: October 22, 2009, 01:54:07 AM »

hi Gerry

thanks for the link, it works well.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Drawing into LC and then to Mach

« on: October 21, 2009, 04:53:56 PM »

Dragon

do you have your mach3 license in the right place.that might be why it does not load the whole file.

there are two cambam downloads,free and not free with a trial. i use the free for a cad filter. many programs out there do many things, each has its own nitch and many do it badly.
some are pretty good. but none of them does it all. if i need to do a program that has image and text involved, it is done as two individual programs.then run them behind each other
or combind them as one. i own a copy of vcarve too. good luck!

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Drawing into LC and then to Mach

« on: October 21, 2009, 02:57:51 PM »

Dragon

i forgot that inkscape does not save as v12 it saves as its own v13. to get it as a usable v12 that works with l-cam i filter it through cambam. download the free version.
just open the file with camban then export to dxf. then it will load in l-cam where you can work with it. attached is your arial dxf that i filtered with cambam. l-cam has a good bit of power but not much polish.
so you have to put some effort into the dxf. attached is trace2 file that i did from your jpg to inkscape to cambam to dxf. trace3 is a dxf generated from filtering trace2 through cadstd lite to make a better dxf.

bill

 

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Drawing into LC and then to Mach

« on: October 20, 2009, 08:13:38 PM »

Dragon

upload your dxf so we can take a look at it.  bet it is a pretty large file. dont believe l-cam is locking up. it is just having a hard time trying to swallow it.
when doing a file in this manner it generates excessive amounts of entities. if you wait long enough it might load. post the file.

bill

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My TSlot based router...

« on: October 19, 2009, 08:24:16 PM »

Arbo

good looking build.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Drawing into LC and then to Mach

« on: October 19, 2009, 08:16:40 PM »

dragon

jpg import into l-cam is pretty much a waste of time no future there. look for the free inkscape download,get a copy of that. scan your drawing in the tiff file format,works pretty good.
turn the tiff into a dxf then import into l-cam. when you turn it into a dxf save it as ver-12 dxf it works better with l-cam. good luck!

bill

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General Mach Discussion / Re: re: Whats happened to Mach.4 update

« on: October 19, 2009, 08:06:20 PM »

Brian

is mach4.0 going to be a lockdown release. el perfectomundo ,no bugfix 4.01 4.02 etc..etc.. with the only updating done with plugins.

thanks bill

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I can't seem to get Backlash Compensation to work...

« on: October 04, 2009, 10:45:55 PM »

mconcepts
try these settings for a starting base.play with a program that had notacable bad move.

set backlash speed to 45% -- set shuttle speed to 0.1 , this is a real good setting --- set look ahead to 5 lines.
play with this setup a little bit and see if you notice something.

bill

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Chains and entities question

« on: September 07, 2009, 02:27:27 PM »

steve

you had that all along and were just messin with us. now quit clowning around and get to work.

bill