Originally posted by WOODKNACK
Anybody really know how to use the converter? I was wondering when you click on PRIORITY after you have a DXF file loaded, What does CLOSE ENOUGH do? can you confinsate for the width of your cutter here instead of doing it in cad? If not then what does this do???
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Yeah, Doug's manual is a little terse.
Close Enough controls what the delta is between two entities to be considered "joined" for the optimization. Optimization in this context means not retracting to Z between two entities that share an endpoint.
There's no cutter comp in ACE, where the DXF lines are defines the toolpath.
Best advice I can give is to draw a simple square, run it through ACE, then look at the gcode generated. That's how I learned to use it. Not a bad program once you get the hang of it.
I'm trying to get the rest of the source from Doug so I can modify it a bit.