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Strange shapes when converting DXF circles to GCode

Open Ger-55 opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

When importing a circle in DXF format in Openbuilds CAM circles flattens as shown in the figure. The DXF file is OK. Adding extra anchorpoints around the circle ( I use Adobe Illustrator ) does not help. Looking at the GCode I see that a circle is approximated by very small straight segments. This is a basic but not the best solution since GCode supports cubic splines so a circle/ellipse can be written e.g. as a four segments using four G4 statements. and 4 coordinate pairs.

circleTest.dxf.txt

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Ger-55 avatar Mar 02 '23 17:03 Ger-55