Oct 22, 2018 - Like a polyline, line, or arc, a spline is an AutoCAD drawing tool. Curve that passes through or near a set of fit points, or that is defined by the vertices. Fortunately, you can easily convert splines to polylines, which are much. A polyline is a chain of points with line or arc segments linked end to end. A curve can be fit tangent to those segments. This is called a splinefit polyline. One other thing, splinefit polylines have finite resolution. So, if you scale up the spline the curve will Look polygonal.
My company has taken on an order for some decorative railings, which were drawn by the customer using polylines to make some eccentric shapes. The CAM software that we use, SigmaNest 7, does not like the polylines. The program simply crashes.
If there's any way of retaining the customer's shapes without effectively re-drawing their entire design, I'm all ears.
When I import one of the files into sigmanest, the program simply crashes. I did a quick and dirty cut-inch by replacing each shape with a polygon of about the same size, and they imported just fine as long as I deleted every polyline in the file.
I've run into a problem before where sigmanest will not handle polylines well, in that it will turn one into a complete circle despite having only a minor arc, but its easily handled by minor tweaks like deleting a redundant layer. I've never had sigmanest dislike a file so much that it just crashes.
Is my only option to redraw everything, or can I somehow convert those polylines into arcs and lines?
Thanks
If there's any way of retaining the customer's shapes without effectively re-drawing their entire design, I'm all ears.
When I import one of the files into sigmanest, the program simply crashes. I did a quick and dirty cut-inch by replacing each shape with a polygon of about the same size, and they imported just fine as long as I deleted every polyline in the file.
I've run into a problem before where sigmanest will not handle polylines well, in that it will turn one into a complete circle despite having only a minor arc, but its easily handled by minor tweaks like deleting a redundant layer. I've never had sigmanest dislike a file so much that it just crashes.
Is my only option to redraw everything, or can I somehow convert those polylines into arcs and lines?
Thanks