Hi, I need a little help with my settings.
I good my hands on a very nice aluminum profile table base from Item and Festo parts. So I rebuild my little MPCNC after I haven’t touched it for a year after we moved house.
I think it’s a little beauty and sooo sturdy. I had to design new leg holders for it to fit the 40x40mm profile with a M8 screw in the middle.
Today I wanted to cut with it for the first time and had some problems.
I need a 40mm circle cut in the top of the plastic case. So I drew a 40mm Circle in Adobe Illustrator, Exported it to DFX, opened it in Estlcam and the machine makes a much bigger circle out of it. Why? What’s to change?
Hi, I found the problem. It’s strange, but it’s Illustrator. It’s not inch to mm or something like that. And the import to Estlcam was ok. Illustrator exported it wrong and I don’t know why.
Iexported a 40mm circle from SolidWorks to dxf and there was no problem:
Hi Ryan, I think you mean export for printing? Illustrator is the best vector tool. I did a lot of dxf export for sheet metal laser stuff with it in the past. And for foil cutting of course.
I don’t understand why the transfer to Estlcam didn’t worked.
Whatever the export tool lets you do select a matching scaler. I know for some time Inkscape used like 92 and switched to 93 and it was subtly messing things up. Vector exports are great, you just need to figure out the exact scaler.
Inkscape has a bounding box setting that needs to be set to Geometric rather than Visual.
Maybe Illustrator has the same type of setting.
The bounding box defines the measured and exported size of the object. Geometric means it’s the dimensions you defined. Visual adds the width of the stroke to the size of the object.
Thank you, i hope so. I have printed a Primo Core some month ago. But I didn´t changed it in my Burly, yet. Would it bring some big benefits. Is it more sturdy f.e. or isn´t there a big differents between them?
I found a solution for my Illustrator to Estlcam export problem. Looks like it´s important for scaling 1:1 that the resolution of your Illustrator file is 72dpi, even when it´s vector.
My working workflow for export files from Adobe Illustrator 2020 to Estlcam 11 in millimeter is (I didn´t tried it in inch but should work, too):
New Document → Units = mm, 72dpi, then draw what you want and with text Choose Type > Create Outlines to convert the text to paths → Export to DXF for AutoCAD 2018;
in Estlcam: open file and choose mm for units
