If I sound ignorant here, then so be it. But why can't the designers export to I-Guess instead of having you attempt to do a direct read in Smartcam? Better yet, if the company you work for was thinking straight, they would give you a copy of Autocad so you could do it yourself. I do all my own translating because 1) I have yet to see a designer that can comprehend what "remove all dimensions first" really means and 2) the settings in most IGES translators are way too complicated for the average designer to comprehend and best left to the NC programmer. Right now I keep a copy of Cadkey 99, Solidworks 2000, Artisan 3A, Unigraphics 16, and Pro-E on my hard drive. All the real programming is still done in Smartcam even though the copies of Artisan and Unigraphics are supposedly capable of doing 2-1/2 axis work.
Jeff Guse ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 4:52 PM Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Translating dwg files > Hi all, > One of the biggest obstacles to our company is the fact that Smartcam > cannot translate Autocad drawings above R12 reliably, if at all. Our > designers want to move away from saving our drawings as R12 because our > archive drawings are now all saved as Autocad 2000. Obviously, it is not > healthy to have multiple copies of the same drawings floating around. > There is an "open dwg alliance" in existence that has developed an > open dwg toolkit. This toolkit is reported to be able to translate even > Autocad 2000 drawings. I was wondering if any of you have tried making use > of this toolkit to help keep Smartcam cooking. > Any comments? > > Chris > > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
