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by kcress
Fri May 25, 2018 8:28 pm
Forum: Yahoo posts
Topic: Moving to group.io
Replies: 0
Views: 8671

Moving to group.io

I am responding to the proposed move to group.io with a resounding YES! The Yahoo mess has driven me crazy for years. It only delivers my reply's occasionally - when it feels like it. It didn't today so I came here.

Do it,
---Keith Cress---
by kcress
Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:44 pm
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: Bad characters!
Replies: 2
Views: 1678

Hi Les, Thanks for the ideas. I'm pretty sure they're Gecko 320's. I've been running an accel of 19.97in/sec/sec on the misbehaving Y axis. I reduced it to 15in/sec/sec with no improvement. Then to 13 then to 10 then to 5. At five the "BL" offset went away but the upper two thirds of an &q...
by kcress
Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:01 am
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: Bad characters!
Replies: 2
Views: 1678

Bad characters!

Hi, So I now have a system for text generation, thanks to you folks, that works great. But. Always a 'but'. :) I'm having some routing artifacts that I'm only guessing about their causes. I know a lot of you have way more experience in this stuff than I and can probably tell me what's causing these ...
by kcress
Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:14 am
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: DXF font blues
Replies: 8
Views: 3938

See if this works for you: 1. In DraftSight draw some text in the font and size of your choice. 2. At the command line type in explodetext 3. Select the text to explode and press enter or the space bar. DraftSight should tell you how many entities were exploded. If DraftSight responds with 0 then s...
by kcress
Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:07 am
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: DXF font blues
Replies: 8
Views: 3938

Hi ajclay! First let me thank you for your suggestions. Then let me REALLY thank you for turning me onto Dassault's Acad clone. I have looked high and low for an Acad knock off since my Acad refuses to work on my newer Win7 comp, and there's no way in h3ll I'm coughing up $1,500 for today's Acad Lig...
by kcress
Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:17 am
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: DXF font blues
Replies: 8
Views: 3938

Thanks Les and Wyo,

No joy. Can't explode the text in that Acad version anyway. I do have Corel Draw so I'll try importing the DXF into there a few ways. Maybe I can lick it that way. Otherwise I'll have to redo it all in Corel which, ugh, doesn't lend itself to precise placement type stuff.
by kcress
Mon Jul 27, 2015 7:44 am
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: DXF font blues
Replies: 8
Views: 3938

DXF font blues

Hi all, I'm hoping someone has a suggestion as to what to do or what the problem is. I'm trying to route some text into a box cover that I can then fill with paint for labeling. I'm using Autocad Light 2004 (I think it's 2004) for the original work. (SheetCam V5.1.5) I've picked simplex text and it ...
by kcress
Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:24 am
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: White Block of Failure.
Replies: 3
Views: 2996

Hi Les. It was specific DXFs and they would always fail - reliably. After reading your response - thank you - I messed with the acceleration one step at a time. When I got to the second to last one from the slowest. It loaded the DXF correctly, every time. Unfortunately SCam also started failing to ...
by kcress
Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:21 am
Forum: Problems and questions
Topic: White Block of Failure.
Replies: 3
Views: 2996

White Block of Failure.

Hello, I use Autocad for my layouts. I export the drawings as DXFs. Then I open them in SheetCam. Most of the time this works very well. But sometimes what happens is the drawing shows up exactly as I expect then the SheetCam display changes to just a single white square about 1/16" x 1/16"...