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General Mach Discussion / Advice sought on importing Autocad DXFs into Mach3.

« on: October 18, 2006, 07:00:45 PM »

If someone is able to consistently import Autocad created DXFs into Mach3 or Lazycam, I would much appreciate a few tips.  I have saved my simple drawings in all the available DXF formats (2004,2000,R14...) and none of them will import into Mach3 or Lazycam. (I get an error such as illegal argument or it will just stop)   I can create a DXF using one of the freeware CAD programs and they import fine.

There must be some setting that will allow the Autocad 2004 drawings to be imported but I can't fixure it out. My eyes are red from all the searching and reading on the web.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Jerryrigger

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LazyCam (Beta) / DXF import fails everytime and gives illegal argument error.

« on: October 18, 2006, 03:08:46 PM »

Using Corel Draw and Autocad 2004, I saved my simple square box (also tried simple circle)  in every available version of DXF. (2004,2000, R13,14...) I attempt to bring it into Lazycam and I get an illegal argument error or sometimes just an error box with no description in it.  I downloaded a sample DXF that someone else posted in the forum and it came into Lazycam OK.

I reinstalled Mach3 and Lazycam...same results.  Tried different compute....same results.

Any ideas or tips would be greatly appreaciated.

Thanks,

jr