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« on: February 18, 2008, 04:50:25 AM »
Jimbo,
unfortunately I now can't open the dxf in turbocad. Amazing how nonexchangeable this format is. Strangely enough, I use the format quite a bit for exchanging circuit diagrams with one of my clients. He generates his in Autocad & I generate mine with Seetrax Ranger ( A PCB cad package ) & we have no problems. I can view either of them on Turbocad, but I've found very few of the dxf's on this topic will display.
I can view your dxf now in Lturn ( It still says it isn't the correct format) but after moving the axes to x0 z0 at the rhs I still can't get it to take my dxf at all.
This is just a test piece so it's not worth a lot of effort. It's just an example of a real job that I may want to do on the lathe.
Lazycam seems to handle it reasonably well - I'm not really clear why there is such a difference in the input file acceptance. Presumably Art is using a completely different decode/ display method. I do like the new style though.
Tony