[jemmyell]

Hi,

I guess I should explain what I am trying to achieve. This is the output from a prototype new feature in the DXFTool for CorelDRAW. I am adding polyline support for some vinyl cutting packages and to improve the ability to support PlasmaCAM. A known issue with PlasmaCAM is requiring the users to 'link segments' when they do a DXF import. Using a polyline without arcs gives a clean import (no link segments) but the shapes are not as smooth as they would be with arcs included. The original DXFTool creates a simplified DXF with only a HEADER and ENTITES sections. The only entities were LINE and ARC entities. Now I am adding POLYLINE entities and I want to support both polylines with and without arcs.

I would be interested in what you mean by a 'clean polyline' or the letters being in 'bad shape'. Looking at a DXF from AutoCAD does not tell me anything. If you could post some screen shots from AutoCAD that might be useful. Currently SheetCAM, Voloview 3 (AutoDESK DXF viewer) and NCPLOT all show this to be a perfect DXF file. The only issue currently open is the 'leftovers' when PlasmaCAM imports this file.

So, this is a DXF file with all ARCs that the DXFTool would normally export represented by polyline 'bulge' (42) parameters. No splines involved.

-James Leonard