Originally Posted by MrWild  Your layers are all screwed up first. I redid the layers and got rid of the crap, but when I got to the cross, I see it will need it's own layer in the drawing.
Okay, did it. You can't do the cross as a single profile. It is done with four contours. I'm assuming you want the cross raised like the logo. In order to do the cross raised, you need to eat out each pocket on each quadrant of the cross. The cross also needs it's own layer as the pockets follow part of the points and part of the cross. You can't just have Dolphin guess what needs to be machined.
Anyway, I got it to work with a few minutes of play. Make a seperate layer in your CAD program (I use an old student version of AutoCad 13 from my college years) for the cross, then draw the contour for the cross and all the other lines like the parts of the points and the circle that will define the pockets. Once you have that, it draws right up in Dolphin.
Be sure to get rid of the junk layers though. I found a lot of trash in the drawing on unneeded layers. |
It almost worked. The Top part started cutting but the cross was a AIR cut above the part. I'll have to look into that in the morning.
How do you find out the layers? I Drew it in Alibre, exported the .DXF file into Dolphin CAD and than used the CAM to generate the G-Code.
How did you find all the junk layers in the .DXF file?
Thanks
Smitty