Need some help with these autocad files.

[cnc_works]

Steve, check your email.

It is clear to me that whoever created these did so without insuring the lines were all created on the same plane. Rhino has the great capability of making a 2-D drawing of a 3D object so I processed them so that all the lines are now on the same plane. Check the Make 2D layer and hopefully that will give you what you need.

Donn
made 2d

steve.zip (13.7 k)

[scottcox]

Steve,

I had a customer do the same thing to me. He created lines that were not all on the same plane. In top view, using Turbocad, you can select each line segment individually and set the z position to zero. This should allow you to join the segments together and toolpath them properly.

I've emailed the corrected DXF files back to you. You still have to join them. Hopefully that should get you going.

[curtiss]

For most versions of Autocad there is a command called "flatten" that takes all the linework to a zero z elevation.

Of course Autocad likes to change things all the time and the commman seems to come and go...

You can also select all the line work and change the z to zero in the properties box. The linework will say "varies" in the z box, highlight that and type 0