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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2011, 11:01:29 AM »
Gerry, Is this run as a macro in Acad?

OT: I really like the new screenset. I am considering moving over to them.  Are they customizable? I have a ton of extra functions that I normally run that I would have to migrate to them  AND a few things I never use that need to come off.

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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2011, 11:12:51 AM »
Is it possible to include a center point for the base circle ?

Done.

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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?

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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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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #12 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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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #13 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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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #14 on: June 11, 2011, 11:43:18 AM »
THanks Gerry The points will be just fine I think I can manage curve fitting and convert to polyline manually if needed.  I think I can export that profile back out as a DXF and use it . But have not tried that part  yet.

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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2011, 11:53:40 AM »
Update to add center point
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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2011, 12:17:15 PM »
YOU are DA CADMAN, (;-) TP

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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2011, 12:24:30 PM »
Gerry could you do a favor? If you have the points file IN acad could you dxf it out and post it here. I am home and ACAD is at the shop. I did not plan to go to the shop today.

I use(testing ) a free copy of hobby Pogecad here and it does not support VBA.

I would like to play with drawing some today to see IF I am smarter than a box of rocks (;-)

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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #18 on: June 11, 2011, 12:56:57 PM »
Here you go.
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Re: ACAD import points to a drawing
« Reply #19 on: June 11, 2011, 01:20:08 PM »
Thanks "CadManDo"

(;-) TP