I often import dwg and dxf files from autocad to corel draw for cutting with my epilog laser. can you tell me what is the best way to prepare the geometry for cutting? I don't want the machine to jump around making the cuts in the order it was drawn in the autocad. Are there some things that can be done so that the laser will recognize the shapes as a continuous cut? Thanks
Ronny Axelsson said:Maybe the author reads this and recognizes it? It is called SM_ob_order.gms
Here it is: http://macromonster.com/product/shelbys-object-order-tab-creator-for-laser-cutters/
brentj said:Thank you all! ...this macro should be what I need. Any tips on installing on x6 and how to use it, or is it self explanatory?
This page has some install resources.
Copy the GMS files (not the whole downloaded zip file) in the User GMS folder;
C:\Users\Your Name\AppData\Roaming\Corel\Graphics13\14\15\16\17\18\Draw\GMS
Or another place:
C:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3\X4\X5\X6\Draw\GMS
Also... go into options and UNcheck "delay load VBA"
if you are unable to run any macros, maybe you didn't install VBA at all - then you'd need to do that from the X6 install DVD. Normally it's installed by default.
brentj said: I had a mix of clock and counterclock wise path directions....After I selected each segment with the shape tool and reversed the parts that were wrong then ran the macro... voila.
brentj said:Now if there were only a way to cook up a macro that truly chained shapes like cam software, fixing both the direction of segments so they were all the same way and hooking them all together end-to-end in order.