> >All you people with a CAD program.
 > >Please try to read this DXF file for me and let me know
 > >what CAD program you are using.
 > >
 > >
 > >Paul Lamar
 > >
 >
 > I was able to open it with TurboCAD 2.0 with no problem.
 >
 > Scott Moore
 > N-316RJ (reserved)

 Here is Chuck's jpg at double size. How many have no trouble reading it?

 Paul Lamar

It is very distorted at 2x, the circle becomes an oval.  I could read the
regular size no problem.

Bill Schertz
KIS Cruiser #4045

What size and kind of monitor do you have Bill? I had trouble reading the 
original size Chuck sent on my IIYama 19 inch 1240 by 820 or some such. 
I think if Tracy would use 50% bigger dimension numbers and text we could read it.
That of course does not completely solve the problem of sharing drawing
files over a variety of CAD and CAM programs. I would not think of changing
my CAD program anymore than any of you would think of changing your CAD programs.
Too steep of a learning curve and too expensive.

If you are thinking of buying a CAD program try to find out what brand of DXF or IGES
files it can read. Also try to find out if it can export a gif, jpg, bmp,
tif or other bit map file. That appears  to be the only, less than perfect,
way of sharing drawing data at this time. This is a huge productivity hit
in the engineering world.

Paul Lamar
 
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