Mach 3D digitised file

[glofuel]

The Mach Digitise wizard saved a TXT file, How can I convert this to something useful like a DXF file so I can import into my CAD prog ?

Any help appreciated

[Switcher]

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[ger21]

I don't think NC plot can turn a point cloud into a mesh, which is what he's looking for.

[turmite]

Rhino is one system that can do it. I use it and I use Mach. I will say though, that the Mach txt file will not import as saved by Mach. The delimiters are wrong, at least for me. I may be doing something wrong but so far every file I have imported to Rhino I had to edit and set the delimiters correctly.

Mike

[Normsthename]

I may be doing something wrong but so far every file I have imported to Rhino I had to edit and set the delimiters correctly.

Rhino should load most formats, it has a screen when you load a text file where you can set the type of delimiter used e.g comma, space, tab etc.
Worse case you can just load it into Excel and save it out again with the correct delimiter. No editing required

Hope ths helps.....

Andy

[glofuel]

Thanks for the comments guys

I have tried Blender, rhino and somthing else, but its getting a bit time consuming...

All I want is to convert the Mach Probed txt file it saved back to G-code

any better or easier idea's ?

Thanks

[bclark6716]

Glofuel,
From your screen name, your are into RC models. And from what I can tell you are trying to reverse engineer 2D profiles with a touch probe. There is no easy answer or solution to what you are trying to do.

I am a reverse engineer by trade and there is no majic button to make shapes appear from straight point data. If you are trying to duplicate a 2D profile then you must take that data into a software package which reads *.txt or *.asc files such as Rihno, AutoCAD, and so on. There is some hig-end software that cost $35K and you still have to manually work the data into lines, circles, and arcs.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it is the only way to work with point data. The other alternative is to pay someone like myself $150.00 an hour to reconstruct your data in the high-end software package.

[Normsthename]

How can I convert this to something useful like a DXF file so I can import into my CAD prog ?

You can convert the rows of points into Polylines in Rhino by selecting Curve/Polyline/Through Points
This creates a series of polylines, and then you can loft the Polylines into a Solid.
There is a fair amount of editing, but it beats drawing it from scratch!

Hope this helps

Andy

[glofuel]

ok thanks guys for the comments

bclark, yep into rc aircraft but all petrol now not as the name suggest