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scottm · 09-08-05, 10:14 PM

I'm a project manager/project engineer at a machine building shop, I get a lot of files from outside for our machines to cut. 3D dies, nests, and stuff get interpreted and massaged by a couple other guys, 2D I make into .dxf files. The mills in my shop can use .dxf, I usually send out lasercut in .dxf, the oldest version .dxf I can save/export in. I always make sure I explode everything, verify to scale, and get rid of hidden lines, centers, dimensions. Notes are OK, text doesn't seem to bother them. The machinist always gets another file or print with dimensions, they save my butt regularly when something isn't right in the file.

09-08-05, 10:14 PM	#4
scottm IH8MUD Lifer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Holland, Michigan Posts: 1,455	I'm a project manager/project engineer at a machine building shop, I get a lot of files from outside for our machines to cut. 3D dies, nests, and stuff get interpreted and massaged by a couple other guys, 2D I make into .dxf files. The mills in my shop can use .dxf, I usually send out lasercut in .dxf, the oldest version .dxf I can save/export in. I always make sure I explode everything, verify to scale, and get rid of hidden lines, centers, dimensions. Notes are OK, text doesn't seem to bother them. The machinist always gets another file or print with dimensions, they save my butt regularly when something isn't right in the file. __________________ '03 UZJ100: wife's ride; '97 FZJ80: Traded in; '97 FZJ80 40th: Totalled; Heep: Trail Rated; '06 Specialized Epic Comp Disk: Daily Driver "if thou would have peace, be thou then prepared for war".