| Author | Message | ||
     Wayne Helland New member Username: Wayne Post Number: 4 Registered: 04-2007 Rating: N/A |
Hi, I am wondering if anyone knows of a program to rotate a g-code file and generate accurate code for a new position. I have several files that I use frequently and when cutting from a sheet. I could minmize my scrap if I could "nest" them together, but I would mean having to rotate them to accomplish that. Expensive nesting programs have this option but they are way out of my budget. Any thoughts ? Thanks, Wayne | ||
| Stan Gray Moderator Username: Stan Post Number: 121 Registered: 01-2007 Rating: N/A |
Hey Wayne, I work with CorelDraw and when I need to do a bunch of parts I just do my nesting on the page. It's kinda tricky to lay them out so they cut in a organized manner but not to hard. | ||
| Fred Mueller New member Username: Freddie Post Number: 13 Registered: 03-2007 Rating: N/A |
Hi Wayne, Here is what I do if I want to rotate some nested parts. This requires that you have some type of CAD program--I use AutoCad. 1. Rotate and nest each individual pattern in the CAD program. 2. Save the CAD program. 3. Erase all but one of the patterns and generate a dxf file. 4. Go back to the saved CAD program and erase all but one (different one). Generate another dxf file. 5. Repeat until all patterns have been saved as a dxf. 6. Convert the dxf files into G-Code. Copy and paste the individual G-Code files into one master program. This will then force the cutting process to do one pattern at a time. Sounds kind of complicated but it really goes fairly fast. If you can find the program that will rotate the G-Code directly you will still have to copy an paste the individual parts to get the master file. If you do find such a program be sure and post it on the forum!!!! Good Luck, Fred |
