Adobe Illustrator to CNC software?? HELP
As a designer, I am looking for the proper way to export Adobe illustrator files so that Our CNC programming time can be reduced. Right now we have vector lines that are being drawn in Adobe Illustrator such as lettering or designs. The cnc programmer then has to redraw / trace the whole thing in order to get it to cut smoothly which seems to me is wasting a lot of time. Is there and good piece of conversion software that will let a designer properly save or convert the file? We have tried exporting dxf files which don't work the way they want. I want to be able to save these hard working guys from redrawing something we have already drawn. I have checked this site out Interflux
Has anyone tried this at all? Bare with me as I'm not sure what cnc software they are using which I will find out tomorrow.
autocadd spline to polyline
the cadd guy says that the illustrator 10 dxf files are coming over as spline and need to be a polyline to work for the cnc programming. I'm not sure but I guess it isn't possible to convert the spline to a polyline? I tried opening the same dxf on my AutoCadd LT ( i really don't know much about autocadd ) and it didn't seem to be little segments.
Do you know what version of corel draw you are saving from? I'm checking into the CNC program, I wrote it down but of course left it somewhere :D I have some vinyl sign software, I'll have to look to see if it can convert to HPGL and try that.