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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: AutoCAD and LazyCam

« on: February 05, 2011, 11:12:08 AM »

I went ahead and looked for a raster to converter program, found a few and tried them. One worked OK so far but cost money and can't go that route since I would still need to edit in AutoCAD. I kinda like the tracing method you mentioned and I will try that later. I really wish my teacher would have taught us AutoCAD with Inventor instead of going through the history of graphics and and crap. Thanks for the help and will hopefully get all this figured out. I have a Taig mill setup with Mach3 and I have cut a few things already, I can program but I don't have much talent in the drawing area. I'm attaching the dxf of what I have come up with so far. Thanks Again!

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: AutoCAD and LazyCam

« on: February 04, 2011, 11:36:22 PM »

Had to rename it, website wouldn't let upload with the same name.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: AutoCAD and LazyCam

« on: February 04, 2011, 11:14:56 PM »

Here it is.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: AutoCAD and LazyCam

« on: February 04, 2011, 11:01:52 PM »

No v12.dxf option and it is a 2D drawing. Not sure what you mean by splines. I took classes on Inventor last semester and really didn't touch AutoCAD but it came with Inventor and that is the only program I know of that I can use to save to dxf or anything that is supposed to be compatible with LazyCam. I downloaded FreeMill and noticed it opens litho files so I saved it to that but after I saved to my desktop I can't find it. I downloaded a few dxf files from the web and they open fine in LazyCam but everything I make and save won't open except in AutoCAD. The reason I need to get this to work is because whenever I try LazyCam to open a photo and get the code it distorts the code so much it isn't usable. I now kinda think I need to concentrate on learning more about AutoCAD but just not sure if that's the case.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: AutoCAD and LazyCam

« on: February 04, 2011, 10:06:31 PM »

I don't get the option of saving it to 11/12 ASCII (dxf). I also tried tried exporting to a different format and no go. I also tried closing AutoCAD before opening into LazyCam but no go. Does AutoCAD being 2011 make a difference? Anymore suggestions I can try?

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LazyCam (Beta) / AutoCAD and LazyCam

« on: February 04, 2011, 03:04:26 PM »

Hi, newbie here. I am having problems opening DXF files with LazyCam. It keeps saying "no entities found" then says file loaded but it doesn't show the image. Any suggestions?

Better yet, I have Inventor Professor 2011 and I can somehow import a file from to LazyCam then I would soooo happy.