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General Mach Discussion / Drilling holes using Lazy cam

« on: April 26, 2008, 01:04:05 PM »

Hey everyone.

I have been using Corel Draw to set up driliing 1/4" holes in a piece of aluminum.  But I can't seem to get lazy cam to do anything with the holes that I have drawn using any of it's drill options.  All I want, is to draw the holes using corel draw, and have lazy cam set them up for drilling.  The only way I seem to get around the drilling problem is to redraw my holes as small as posible and have lazy cam seem them as dots, but what a pain.

Any help would be great.  Thanks.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LC Pro not working?

« on: April 23, 2008, 08:33:29 PM »

Try using the zoom feature to make the holes appear on the screen larger.  I don't get it, but that is what I was told to do.  I works most times to correct a problem.  I actually use it all the time to prevent problems.  I guess it's a bug with the progam.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: A Long Sad Story

« on: March 24, 2008, 09:53:54 PM »

I have done the same thing when making a exhaust port header adapter.

I scanned in the old part into Corel draw.  Then I drew all the curves, drill holes etc, on top of my scanned picture.  When the complete piece was redrawn with corel I just deleted the scanned picture and was left with a new perfect drawing of the new piece.  Now, it was a little tedious, but it ended up being better then the original scanned drawing and I could modify it if I needed too.  I would think that you would need the full versions of both mach and lazy cam to do this.

But so far I haven't found a perfect way of scanning and posting code in one simple step.

Jonny