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LazyCam (Beta) / Struggling to get Consistant Results
« on: October 22, 2007, 08:02:09 AM »
Hello, I purchased/registered Lazycam on the basis of a succesfull result with a simple line engraving which was my first experience of CNC. Along the same lines I have another, simple line engraving I want to convert from DXF to a .tap toolpath but I'm getting wildly differant results everytime I offer it to Lazycam.
I'm creating the DXF in Autocad 2007 but I find that Lazycam won't read these unless I import & save in Corel X3 first. When I import the DXF into Lazycam I see pretty much what left Corel X3 (sometimes) but when I ask it to offset or create Gcode things start to go inexplicably wrong !
I like Lazycam because over other software I've tried (& I've tried a few) because it's intuitive & simple but if it can't handle what I consider to be a very simple conversion then I've thrown my £money to the wind.
http://www.babbawah.plus.com/CNC/
Is the DXF file (K Logo 6.dxf) from Autocad (R13/14 format) if you could look at it & perhaps identify if I'm doing anything wrong?
I'm creating the DXF in Autocad 2007 but I find that Lazycam won't read these unless I import & save in Corel X3 first. When I import the DXF into Lazycam I see pretty much what left Corel X3 (sometimes) but when I ask it to offset or create Gcode things start to go inexplicably wrong !
I like Lazycam because over other software I've tried (& I've tried a few) because it's intuitive & simple but if it can't handle what I consider to be a very simple conversion then I've thrown my £money to the wind.
http://www.babbawah.plus.com/CNC/
Is the DXF file (K Logo 6.dxf) from Autocad (R13/14 format) if you could look at it & perhaps identify if I'm doing anything wrong?