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I assume you mean the DXF is showing on the YZ plane. You can either rotate the entities or you can just change to another WCS/Tplane/Cplane. Which do you want to do?
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ok so i put an auto cad file on a flash drive and took it to my shop plugged it in to my computer and opened it on master cam it was a DXF so i had no problems except that it rotated somehow to being on a z plane instead of a x y plane. in cad it is on a x y plane so i don't know why it changed is there a way to rotate the plane the drawing is on in master cam. thanks
I assume you mean the DXF is showing on the YZ plane. You can either rotate the entities or you can just change to another WCS/Tplane/Cplane. Which do you want to do?
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i want to make it so my top view is the xy plane not the yz.
Open the WCS Manager. Highlight the Front WCS and click on the '=' button. Close that dialog box. Change to ISO Gview for reference. Then Xform > Rotate >All > All Entities > End Selection. On the Rotate dialog, Move > 90 (or -90 depending on which side needs to be up) > Ok. Open the WCS Manager. Highlight the Top WCS and click on the '=' button. Close that dialog box. Change to Top Gview. Your entities should be be shown rotated to the XY plane and in Top view.
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What version of Mastercam are you using?
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I'm a high school student and I'm designing a ski. Let me reword my question above. I drew the ski with autocad 2010 and saved the file as an AutoCAD 2007 dxf. When I open the dxf file at the high school shop on MasterCam X4 it appears on the Z plane so we see the side view of our ski instead of the top view. Did I do something wrong in AutoCAD that is easy to fix? If this can't be fixed in AutoCAD, how can I orient the Ski in MasterCam so I can see the top view on the Y plane. We tried the WCS manager instructions provided in the post above and we could rotate the ski, but we could not change the axis that the ski is on. Thanks for any help.
do you have the file from either softwares to share with me?
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Yes see attached dxf files
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Wow, thanks a ton!! i noticed that i messed up some how not having it all put together. i saw you fixed that. Was there other things you changed?
Nothing changed from the very exact direction given before. Maybe you just need to practice a little with MasterCam. Most people do. Took me about 3 weeks to get decent with it at 8 hours per day.
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ya nm about changing the drawing i was mistakin but did you do any thing to them so they would rotate right on mastercam?
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