Re: Macro required

Cliff,

Actual size is a variable determined by the current scale of the 2D layout
at the time the DXF is generated. If I have a drawing of a 1" square block,
and the drawing is set at 1/2 scale when I generate the DXF, the "actual"
size of the geometry represented in the DXF will be 1/2" square. DXF doesn't
carry any scaling info.,so as far as the CAM system on machine tool is
concerned It's a 1/2" square Solidworks and Autocad both do this. In this
sense, it's more of an output issue from the originating system.

Most CAM systems, even the limted ones that come on these machines, can
scale geometry. This, however, only helps if you know the scale, and it adds
a possible error into the process. It's much easier, and safer, to just send
1:1 geometry.

What Adrian wants is a quick way to add this layout to the rest of the
documentation.



Mark




"Cliff" <Clhuprich@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:m6ujk1pfsn7etb94qu7v1h1dlvg30rg8mp@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 21:07:45 +0000 (UTC), "Adrian"
> <a_e_brooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hi Mark that is completely correct that is why we would like to put the
> >flat pattern on different layers the CNC. punch programs can turn lays
off.
>
> But you wanted the view an a different layer, not the geometry,
> IIRC. Which I found a puzzle <g>.
>
> View-dependant edits also exist but ....
>
> Then there's the issue of that 1:1 scaling that Mark mentioned ...
> I cannot believe that any CAM program would not read the model
> geometry at it's actual size nor that any CAD program could
> not scale views as requested to fit on a drawing.
>
> What's missing here?
> --
> Cliff


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