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!autocad probs help please!
Hi all
I need to get some SS letters laser cut in times roman. the guy we use says he cant cut them, he doesnt have the font. is there any way i can convert a file to autocad dxf so that he can cut it. he has suggested i manually digitize the lettering 😮 . he says he needs a polyline. i tried exporting an outline of the text from Illustrator but the outline opened in autocad as spline lines. any help would be much appreciated. i have autocad, illustrator, coreldraw to woek with..
Thanks
Martin
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6 Replies
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Hi, use coreldraw and export as dxf he should be able to use it in autocad
George
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Try http://www.aidsoftware.co.uk Jim (who runs the site) is very knowledgeable on all things Autocad/CorelDraw and would be able to help.
Alan -
yes, we had this. Spent many times fighting with laser-cutters services
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The bloke obviously doesn’t know how to use AutoCad, he can convert the spline to a polyline in Autocad, unfortunatly I can’t remember the comand at the moment as it’s been a year or two since I last used it.
I’ll check for you and post back.
He may be meaning that he needs the outline as 1 continous entity though.
Steve
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Ok here’s what your laser man has to do.
Open the file, this will be the spline, he then has to save-as a R12 dwg file, this converts the file to a polyline.
It’s something to do with the spline that was introduced in R13 but no option for conversion was offered, however the saving as a R12 does the conversion to a fitted polyline.Hope this sorts the problem
Steve
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Thanks steve sorted 😉
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