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Mechanical drawings for http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press hopper parts
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Can't open dxf's in LibreCAD #4

Open chuck-h opened 11 years ago

chuck-h commented 11 years ago

KS> I got the .dxf files for the Hopper but when I open them in LibreCAD, I see nothing KS> (screenshot attached). Marcin ran into the same problem. We tried zooming in/out KS> - no effect. Are we doing something different from what we're supposed to?

chuck-h commented 11 years ago

On Ubuntu 12.04LTS I tried sudo apt-get install librecad [...] After this operation, 15.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. [...] librecad

At installation I chose inch units. LibreCAD help/about reports Version 1.0.1, SCM revision 1.0.0, Compiled on Feb 21 2012

In my Temp directory I have: ls -l ~/Temp/*.dxf -rw-rw-r-- 1 charrison charrison 29983 Dec 5 02:36 /home/charrison/Temp/Hopper-164_CAM.dxf -rw-rw-r-- 1 charrison charrison 62140 Dec 5 02:36 /home/charrison/Temp/Hopper-164.dxf -rw-rw-r-- 1 charrison charrison 28328 Dec 5 02:36 /home/charrison/Temp/Hopper_88_CAM.dxf

All three of these open from LibreCAD's File/Open menu.

All three have text issues (extra "\C7" characters) but the geometry on layer "VISIBLE" is fine. Dimension text also shows up in the wrong places.

chuck-h commented 11 years ago

verified same text problems with libreCAD import using either Autocad 2000 export or Autocad v14 export options from Alibre.

chuck-h commented 11 years ago

Some text issues are probably that LibreCAD is not happy with text format codes: http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/text-formatting-codes-in-mtext-objects-tip8640