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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 11, 2011, 11:19:32 AM »

OT: I really like the new screenset. I am considering moving over to them.  Are they customizable?

Depends on how good your Photoshop skills are.
It's 7 basically identical pages, with only the tab portions of each page being different. The Photoshop file I offer has the tab portions separated so that you can change any individual tab easily. If you want to change something on the toolbar or elsewhere outside the tab, the Photoshop file allows you to make a single change, and easily export the 7 pages with that change.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 11, 2011, 11:14:22 AM »

Gerry, Is this run as a macro in Acad?

Yes. You can use VBALOAD to load it, and VBARUN to run it. All you have to do is select the .txt file.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 11, 2011, 11:12:51 AM »

Is it possible to include a center point for the base circle ?

Done.

NOW the next question. AFTER I have smoothed out any quircks can I do curve fitting where it will work???  

I don't really understand what you want to do. Automatically fit a polyline to the points? Or some other entity?

Can you take the finish product back out to points or possible simple GcodeGcode??

You want to edit the points, and create g-code from them? What would the g-code look like?

As I said, I already had a similar macro, so it only took me about 20 lines of code to do what you wanted. Adding the polyline isn't too hard, but it can get complicated in a hurry.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 11, 2011, 09:22:41 AM »

Disregard the csv statement. This works with TAB delimited files like the sample you posted. I hope it works in ACAD2000.  

All points are referenced from 0,0.

Note that there's an anamoly in your sample. Note the angle in the middle line here:
1.220   264.500
1.210   233.750
1.200   268.250


233.75° should be between the other two angles.

Here's a screenshot of AutoCAD with the points selected.

If you'd prefer, I can make the points a polyline. Or both. Just let me know.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 10, 2011, 11:21:18 PM »

Comma separated is preferred. I have a macro that creates a mesh from a point cloud created with the digitizing wizard. I should be able to modify it to do what you want.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 10, 2011, 10:27:13 PM »

Can you give me a file to look at?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 10, 2011, 10:03:49 PM »

Let me see what you've got.

Actually, do you just want to create points, or do you want to do something else with them?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: ACAD import points to a drawing

« on: June 10, 2011, 06:23:08 PM »

What format are they in? I might be able to whip together a VBA importer. What version of AutoCAD are you using?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Gcode Conversions

« on: June 09, 2011, 10:17:49 PM »

You can use MDI and type #1=5, but you'd need to pause or stop first I think.

But that's probably not what you want.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Wear Comp

« on: June 09, 2011, 03:24:26 PM »

Not yet.