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Re: Clock materials

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:57 am
by Daven
I've not seen any of Brian's plans but it could be they are in a later version of Autocad or the plans contain splines. If you have a cad program open it and check for splines if not save as 2000 dxf and try that.

Cheers
Dave

Re: Clock materials

Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:31 pm
by Spooky
khumbu5 wrote:Ordered the same clocks on friday. They come in a DXF format which isn't converting onto the Lasercut 5.3 software cleanly. Do you happen to know of an easy fix?
yup, mail them to me and I'll fix them :)

best wishes

Dave

dave@opticalpower.co.uk

Re: Clock materials

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:05 am
by avalonman
I don't seem to have a problem, all I do is open ls5.3 and then import the dxf file.

Tried with all dxf's with no problem.

what problems are you getting

Re: Clock materials

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:53 am
by khumbu5
Dave, Avalonman, thanks for your help but managed to find a fix for it. Downloaded a free version of Drafsight and saved it as an old version. Opened no problem. Apparently it was seeing it as an old version so had a few glitches, saving it as an older version of a DXF fixes it. Looking forward to making it now!

Ta

Re: Clock materials

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 7:56 am
by khumbu5
khumbu5 wrote:Dave, Avalonman, thanks for your help but managed to find a fix for it. Downloaded a free version of Drafsight and saved it as an old version. Opened no problem. Apparently it was seeing it as an old version so had a few glitches, saving it as an older version of a DXF fixes it. Looking forward to making it now!

Ta
Thank you Spooky too. Nice to speak to you all...

Re: Clock materials

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:27 am
by Daven
Cool - look forward to seeing pictures of the end result ;)

Best
Dave