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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Bobo on March 31, 2006, 10:18:24 AM

Title: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: Bobo on March 31, 2006, 10:18:24 AM

I just finished getting the X and Y axis running on my homebuilt Plasma table. I installed a pencil for a spindle for testing. I had the Cycle Jog set to 1.0000 and Jog Mode to Step and checked the motor tuning by jogging one full step and measuring the distance which was 1 inch, measured with a digital caliper within thousands. I then exported a 4 inch diameter circle from Unigraphics in DXF and imported it into Mach 2. It drew a very nice circle but it was about 1.5 inches in diameter.

The load DXF window in Mach 2 shows the max and min X and Ys to be exactly 4 inches but when I generate the gcode and look in the tool path screen in Mach2 is shows it to be about 1.5. It was mentions in another forum that it looks like inches in converted to centimeters.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Title: Re: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: Brian Barker on March 31, 2006, 12:46:46 PM

IF you use Lazy cam I can help you with anyproblem :)

Title: Re: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: ger21 on March 31, 2006, 07:35:51 PM

Post the code if you could. The .dxf inmport screen looks like 4"?

Title: Re: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: Bobo on April 01, 2006, 04:13:16 PM

Yes the DXF import window shows the circle to be 4 inches but you can see in the ToolPath window of Mach2 the Y axis range is only 1.5. Here's the gcode.
(File test5.tap )
(Thursday, March 30, 2006)
G90G80G49
G0 X-2.7659 Y-0.0969
M3
F20.000 G2 X-2.7659 Y-0.0969 I-0.7659 j-0.0969
M5
G0 X0 Y0
M5M30

Title: Re: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: ger21 on April 03, 2006, 09:46:51 AM

Try changing your I,J settings under Config>State. You probably have them set at incremental, and I think the .dxf importer uses absolute.

Title: Re: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: Bobo on April 03, 2006, 11:58:07 AM

IJ mode absolute fixed it.

Thx Gerry

Title: Re: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: Bobo on April 03, 2006, 12:12:56 PM

Strange,,,,, while set to incremental, importing a square was to scale but a circle was not.

Title: Re: DXF Import Not to Scale
Post by: ger21 on April 03, 2006, 01:53:33 PM

That only affects arcs (G2 and G3), not straight lines (G1)