Mitchell Andrus
08-26-2006, 11:31 AM
I have a Laserpro Spirit 60W and use their off the shelf driver, and Corel X3.
A friend emailed a Turbocad 12 file to see if I could cut it, and stopped over to see the machine in action. I opened it in Turbocad 11(.dwg), saved it as a .wmf so I could work on it in Corel. The file consists of a few curves, and about 20 straight lines, nothing fancy.
I opened the .wmf file in Corel X3 and attempted to print it. The laser got the file, but the panel showed some settings that didn't relate to the settings I set with the driver and refused to cut it.
We deleted parts of the drawing one by one until the file made it into the laser OK, and turned our attention to the parts of the drawing that were causing the problem. I don't know what caused the sytem to vomit the files back at us - there must be somthing in the way Turbocad makes lines that get mutated somehow when they are opened or processed in Corel. Funny thing is, some lines cause a problem, some don't.
We tried to print straight from Turbocad - HA! Does anyone do this? How?
So, anyone game for a little timewaster??? The files are below.
Don't spend too much time here, it isn't a critical job. It was kinda fun to see just how far we could go before calling it a night.
Mitch
A friend emailed a Turbocad 12 file to see if I could cut it, and stopped over to see the machine in action. I opened it in Turbocad 11(.dwg), saved it as a .wmf so I could work on it in Corel. The file consists of a few curves, and about 20 straight lines, nothing fancy.
I opened the .wmf file in Corel X3 and attempted to print it. The laser got the file, but the panel showed some settings that didn't relate to the settings I set with the driver and refused to cut it.
We deleted parts of the drawing one by one until the file made it into the laser OK, and turned our attention to the parts of the drawing that were causing the problem. I don't know what caused the sytem to vomit the files back at us - there must be somthing in the way Turbocad makes lines that get mutated somehow when they are opened or processed in Corel. Funny thing is, some lines cause a problem, some don't.
We tried to print straight from Turbocad - HA! Does anyone do this? How?
So, anyone game for a little timewaster??? The files are below.
Don't spend too much time here, it isn't a critical job. It was kinda fun to see just how far we could go before calling it a night.
Mitch