Exploded hidden line
Exploded hidden line
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I need to take a customer drawing and send it to our laser software and have it "plot" just as it appears in AutoCad. The problem is that our laser software won't recognize Hidden, Center, Dashed lines Ect.
Is there a way to explode a center line so that it will appear as three lines so that our software won't draw one solid line where a center or hidden line was suposed to live.
Is there a way to explode a center line so that it will appear as three lines so that our software won't draw one solid line where a center or hidden line was suposed to live.





RE: Exploded hidden line
Tell me about the output device, etc.
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We are currently using AutoCad 2000.
The Laser System will only accept R14 formated DWG's it imports them and in the importation process reads polylines, lines, and hatching patterns. It will read a couple other autocad enties. upon importation it takes the autocad entities and makes them into its own file type (.MCL) it uses a VBS style program with a (.bia) format to give the "MCL" size location, Laser Power/ speed ect. The Mcl's are only editable in autocad. In other words it is a uneditable format, other than scale and position in my marking field.
Is that the info you needed. I am willing to share more if needed. just don't want to waste bandwidth.
What I am lookin' for is some little hidden command to explode a hidden line into a series of short lines. That way there is no way the other program can screw it up.
I also tried the same experiment. I imported a DXF file in CorelDraw 8 and it did the same thing. Replaced a center line with one solid line.
RE: Exploded hidden line
RE: Exploded hidden line
my current solution is a set of lines I use to "trace" over the existing hidden lines in the Customer drawing. It works but seems so elemetary to me. There just has to be a better way, since these drawings are coming in more and more often.
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Flores
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Of course this could be academic if you can't accept bitmaps.
Good luck
RE: Exploded hidden line
there's a way:
Try *.dxb file.
-> new plotter (dxb-file)
-> plot into a folder
Import back into Your *.dwg by "dxbin"
Use the keyword search (dxb) in this forum...
Lothar
Win NT4.0(SP6),2000(SP3)
AC 2000i(SP2), ADT 3.0(SP3),
AC 2002, ADT 3.3,
AC 2004, ADT 2004
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And yes I need the hidden lines, I am engraving an anodized Aluminuim plate with mold schematics, to be permantly stuck to the mold.
Our software will take raster images in a couple formats but we try to only use it for pictures and artistic work, and such b/c the quailty just never seems the same.
RE: Exploded hidden line
RE: Exploded hidden line
file -> printer setup -> new
highlight "AutoCad DXB file format" -> ok
follow prompts.
then print using the new DXB printer, output will be a file,
new drawing, "DXBIN" @ command line, browse to new DXB file,
copy objects to clipboard, open original drawing,
paste as block, then "align" block using common points on line, you can take it from here.
many steps, probably depends on how many objects are "broken linetypes", whether it is worthwhile.
hope this helps
Intel P4 1.7 GHZ
768 RDRAM
Win 2000 Pro
Autocad 14, 2002 with EP 2.3.1