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For machining castings, I've done exactly what I think you're attempting. Try making geometry for a finish pass slightly larger than the casted part, then add the rest of your tool paths. When you...

I do some lathe work and 2.5 d milling for the oilfield. You'd laugh if I told you what machines I use to do so... Here I go... I have 2 1986 Monarch metalist cnc lathes, and 2 servoII retro...

Not sure if this is what you're after, but I deleted some lines, which should allow the cylinder to remain intact... when you cut the lines, you should plunge cut them... no lead in/out

I need some pointers here. Thought maybe the bright gentlemen on this board could point me in the right direction.

I need to be able to convert a manually adjustable machine with either hydraulics...

o... That was a huge file...

Go check out www.plasmaspider.com there is one there I know, along with a great number of other files you'll find useful for your water jet

this file might help. Sometimes, with funky fonts I'll open a fonts dxf file, whichi previously created at 1'', to make scaling in fractions easy, create my geometry in the xy positive, and scale...

davek,

When I opened your file, it appears as a single line font, so I saved it as a dxf... I was going to manually convert the letters for you... Open this file, and tell me if it's what you...

Here's Jimmy.

The dxf file will need to be scaled (it's huge), and the dxf don't look real pretty, but it pockets out nicely!!! Attatched the a jpg of the machine verification

Still needs some cleanup... but it's a start take ths into your cad and tweak it from there. I can't get my cad to work on my home computer anymore

Yeah, Switcher you missed one. There's a function there called "auto route"

Hey Switcher

This may interest you and your friends. I bet combined with some Inkscape bitmap conversion programming, and a bit more work in the chaining and post processing for your toolpaths, (...

Needs some tweaking, but it's an excellent start

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:idea: manual tracing.... what a concept :idea:

Really nice work. I just thought maybe just maybe there was a single clik way you did it.

Nice work tpsega.... what software did you use to do your conversion?

Ahhhh.... the only flaw I've ever faced with inkscape. Here's a link that will help you to understand that problem, and a possible solution

USMC... this one engraves nicely. You'd need to clean it up quite a bit for any other purpose

go check out dub-ya dub-ya dub-ya dot plasmaspider dot com

There's lots of wildlife stuff posted on there.

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Here's a kitty pumpkin I carved this year.... Inkscape is great, It's amazing what you can do with it :D

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Got it switcher... Thanks again for the thorough instructions
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here is a marlin I just whipped out for ya using inkscape and the almighty switcher's plug-in

You'll have to add the splashes, but he is jumping out of the water

Thanks for the help switcher I truly appreciate it. I'll play with the file when I have more time.

Thanks again
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Grrrrr!!!!

I can't get inkscape to make a dxf with this file for some reason.

Last night I made one with 2000+ nodes, and I was surprised, but now it won't make one with -800 nodes

Why is...

I have heekscad on my home computer. We use mastercam at work, but I can make my conversions with inkscape, and view them with heekscad(free) then I know if it's worthy of even taking to the shop and...

here you go... the numbers should be messy, that way it looks like it's chalked on a blackboard.

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Have you gotten the dxfr12 "plug in" from switcher's blog site? That is what you need in order to make a dxf file that can be opened in mastercam with Inkskape. I know it works, I use it for...

I'm running it with Vista on my new laptop Switcher, and had no issues installing dxfr12 into inkscape. Followed your instructions, and It works great... Thanks again btw

Clearcut,

Here's the dxf you pm'ed me for... it took me about 5 minutes including helping my son with his homework and searching for an image to convert the jpeg found on the 'net into this dxf...

Here's you a jpeg

There were too many nodes for inkscape to convert to dxf, and I didn't feel like fiddling with it tonite... good luck

I cleaned up that sillhoutette a little switcher... convert this into a dxf for this guy.... while I work on plugging in your file
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