Re: Reducing Lines/Curves/Splines
are you by chance starting with a solid modle or a surface model and you are trying to get a simple profile?
The simplafy can work in a lot of cases. but if you per say a ellipse profile it will not convert to arcs. As the single spline has many arcs in the profile edge. Mastercam will not look at the spline and break it up. so at stime you need to do that your self first on a spline then use the Simplify and you get better results.
As for output of splines in DXF and DWG these are supported under those file format's so you know. but the software they are using to program the water jet my not know how to use them.
I used to us Mastercam many years ago on a waterjet I used to program. I tweaked the post to remove a lot of basics like tools and so on and replace coolant with the code to turn on the garnet for example.
(BTW don't use MC to open your DWG. Use some other program. Better still, use the same program that the water jet company uses.) this statement is bull. Mastercam does a great job opening DWG for almost 30 years I have used it. At time there are issues based on setting from the other software that output it. Just like Step or Iges or Parasolid and others.
(Note: The opinions expressed in this post are my own and are not necessarily those of CNCzone and its management)
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