file program help

[Dan Gray]

hI guys
anyone know anything about this type of file program?
single line file ord

I need one and of course a cheap one

 

[Dan Gray]

no Body
I may have to move this out side to shop talk
it will be used for making Knives

 

[Bill Vining]

Dan,

What kind of program is it? Sound like some kind of CNC software.

Bill

 

[Dan Gray]

Dan,

What kind of program is it? Sound like some kind of CNC software.

Bill

yes I want to put some of my patterns on disk in that format to save and for easy of transfer for that type work also..I have a few deals in the works to get a head start on..

 

[Bill Vining]

Dan,

You may want to check this out. It's a free CAD program I use. It's very easy to use and if you ever want parts cut out for you, it's a breeze. I design and save all my patterns this way. When I want to make a knife, I just print out the patterns and glue them on the stock.

http://www.emachineshop.com

Bill

 

[Dan Gray]

Dan,

You may want to check this out. It's a free CAD program I use. It's very easy to use and if you ever want parts cut out for you, it's a breeze. I design and save all my patterns this way. When I want to make a knife, I just print out the patterns and glue them on the stock.

http://www.emachineshop.com

Bill

dang thanks for the reminder Bill
I put that on my wifes puter a long time ago. I'll have to up date it, if I remember right, they need to download junk from time to time? pricing info mainly I think..I didn't at the time mess with it much..I'll have to now.:thumbup:

 

[Dan Gray]

dang thanks for the reminder Bill
I put that on my wifes puter a long time ago. I'll have to up date it, if I remember right, they need to download junk from time to time? pricing info mainly I think..I didn't at the time mess with it much..I'll have to now.:thumbup:

Bill I can't recall if they were the only one that can use the saved info or
anyone can use it from the info saved on disk? do you know?

 

[butcher_block]

Dan,

You may want to check this out. It's a free CAD program I use. It's very easy to use and if you ever want parts cut out for you, it's a breeze. I design and save all my patterns this way. When I want to make a knife, I just print out the patterns and glue them on the stock.

http://www.emachineshop.com

Bill

hijacking a bit how do oyu go about using emach. to figger out pivot placing on a folder and how can you set the main grind line i have played around with the program but played is the best way to describe it

 

[Bill Vining]

Dan,

You can save to a .dxf file which is a standard CAD file format. Not much else in the way of exporting the file. If I need to save as a file that others can use, I save it as a .pdf. (You got to have the full blown version of Adobe Acrobat to do this.


Butcher_Block

It won't tell you where to place the pivot but it makes it easy to move the pivot wherever you want to experiment. Make the blade and liner seperate from each other. Once each is drawn, Select all the lines for each one and combine them. This will make the blade 1 line and the liner 1 line. You can them move the blade into any position you like. Draw a 1/8 circle as the pivot. I use the 40% rule to start for pivot placement. Place the pivot 40% of the scale width from the bottom of the scale and the same distance from the front of the scale. For example. if your liner is 1" wide, place the pivot .400 from the bottom of the liner and .400 from the front of the liner. Once the pivot is placed, move the blade over the liner and the pivot you just placed. If you double click on the blade, a pivot point will show. Move this over the pivot you drew. Now you can pivot the blade over the liner and work on the fine tuning.

I hope this helps, I'm not very good at explaining things in detail.

Another idea is to view the tutorials that are avaiable for the program. Lot's of good stuff on there.

Bill

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[butcher_block]

interesting thanks thats sorta what i was doing i photo shop i just wasnt sure how to go about it in a cad
goingto have to see if im smert and can figger it out
butch

 

[Dan Gray]

Thanks Bill
I dug it up again last night,, I got some learning to do

 

[Dan Gray]

Bill
with E/M can you put a drawing on another file with the grid lines smaller? with out changing the rest of the pattern?

I drew up one pattern but have the grids spaced too far apart, or I should say the grids are not small enough? so I can fine tune the curves.. I wonder if the nudge option will get around that?

 

[Bill Vining]

Dan,

There are a couple of things you can do. One is that you can right click on the drawing and shut off the snap options. Secondly, you can go into the edit>preferences menu and change the spacing between the grid marks.

Hope this helps

Bill

 

[Dan Gray]

Dan,

There are a couple of things you can do. One is that you can right click on the drawing and shut off the snap options. Secondly, you can go into the edit>preferences menu and change the spacing between the grid marks.

Hope this helps

Bill

thanks Bill
I was messing with it some more and got it by nudging.
the problem with spacing between the grid marks was I thought, was because it had a drawing all ready there I'll try that on the next one.
is it normal for it while saving to 3.5 to save as .EMS ?
if I save it on the HD it saves as .DXF OK..

 

[Bill Vining]

Save them all as EMS unless you are transfering to another program.

 

[Dan Gray]

Save them all as EMS unless you are transferring to another program.

Bill Have you tried to e-mail a DXF file from this program?
I have it now saved as a DXF file and it attaches OK.. but when e-mailing it, it comes up empty on the other end?

 

[Bill Vining]

I dont use the dxf files. Anything I mail or post, I use pdf files.