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[Quico13]

Hi,
I have a lot of 2D draws done with a program called MAZURKA, now we've lost the original CD cause we made it long time ago and then we started to use Autocad and now Solidworks, the problem is that we need some information from this draws, anyone knows how could I transform MAZURKA files to DWG or DXF? then we will be able to introduce it to PDM system.

I've found a lot of sites in the web and I don't find information about this program, maybe it was bought for PTC?

Please help me.

Thank you.

Quico

 

[fcsuper]

Quico

I'm going coming up with Polka dancing when I look it up on Yahoo! Search. It may be easier, more efficient, better for posterity, and cleaner just to recreate what you need natively in SolidWorks. Do you have print out of the drawings to work from?



Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA

http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

What format are the Mazurka files in?

Can you scan them and save as PDF and use in PDM system?

 

[AnnaWood]

I suspect the files are a product of a package used for creating laser cutter paths.

I would be heading over to the Usenet group alt.machines.cnc and asking if any of the members over there use the Mazurka program. They may be kind enough to translate the programs for you.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.machines.cnc/topics?lnk=srg

Regards,

Anna Wood
SW07 SP2.1, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450
WD Raptors, 1 Gb network connection

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse

 

[Quico13]

I've serached in google and I know that it is a Polka dancing, jeje, it seems to be a joke, but it's real, we have some printed drawings but almost all are in a CD and non printed, that's the problem, I don't know what could I do.

Thank you Anna, but there are a lot of file to translate and it could be too much hours, if anyone know how to translate and can tell you...

Thank you for your help!!! You are great!

Quico

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

What format are the Mazurka files in?
i.e. What extensions do they have?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

This is the only "Mazurka CAD System" reference I could find on the web.

http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?u=http://

http://www.computerwoche.de/heftarchiv/1990/7/1144354/&langpair=de|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8

Do you have any other information? Original vendor, support company, etc?

 

[Quico13]

there are a couple of extensions for this kind of files, *.IFC and *.MDR.

Thank you.

Quico

 

[smcadman]

The only Mazurka I found tied in any way to CAD is a job application in the UK.
"You will also be a competent user of Mechanical CAD tools (Mazurka and Pro-Engineer) "

http://www.redgoldfish.co.uk/jsviewjob2.asp?jid=123777

The reason I bring this up is that it seems like it wasn't a very popular program and you will be hard pressed to find a file converter without the actual program.

http://filext.com

did not list those file extensions for a cad/cnc program either. Sorry, but you may be S.O.L.

SW07 SP2.0

Flores

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Take a look at the "Wilbur" converter at

http://www.emediez.com/download/filext.html

Also

http://ce.vtt.fi/iaiIFCprojects/

I've no idea if they are even close to being what you need, but maybe worth a look.

 

[gogst]

Mazurka was developed by Ferranti Infographics to replace CAM-X in the 80's. The company still exist in a different guise but don't really deal in CAD software anymore. Although they still support some companies who use the application, the experts are no longer there. Maybe worthwhile trying them though.

http://www.infographics.co.uk

 

[gogst]

I forgot to mention, even if you were to find the CD I don't think it would work as it requires a license file which I'm sure is linked the machine host id. It also depends if it was the earlier VAX based version or the Windows version.
With regard to file extensions, if I remember correctly, IFC was the earlier file extension and I've a funny feeling it was linked to the CAM-X format so they could interface. MDR was the later Mazurka format.