Originally Posted by
Christheblizz
Hello.
I'm currently employed at a company that fabricate a lot of stairs. The plans for the stairs are made by a different company and are delivered to us in DWG- or DXF-formats.
In order to get the right starting point in my machine I have to tweek these files a bit but the results are varying, adding lines or circles to the sketch often make the import into Xilog Plus( my CNC software ) invert the X-value of the inserted line.
The order in which I tweek the files are as follows:
1. Remove excess lines.
2. Make sure all lines and figures are in the same layer.
3. Insert breaking points to lines so that the software recognizes a starting point.
4. Move the X and Y values so that 0,0 is in the top left corner of the work piece.
5. Import the files to Xilog plus where the program make GCODE out of it.
My feeling is that in the process of tweeking the DXF-file in autocad the values somehow gets messed up but I can't figure out how or why. Sometimes it works first go, sometimes it doesn't.
Best Regards
// Christian