CC V7 has some good feature improvements and new features. However, the same scaling error when importing a DXF files is still carried over from previous version going back to V5 of CC. A fix is needed so when a .dxf file is opened, the correct scaling is applied. I have submitted detail examples of why it doesn’t work correctly. If you open a .dxf file that is scaled for inches, the object vectors of the .dxf file are scaled to mm and visa versa. Why can’t this be fixed in CC V7? Example files provided to Carbide 3D support will not import correctly scaled in CC, but do get scaled correctly in other 3rd party CAD software like LibreCAD. The imported vectors should be scaled per the settings in the setup panel. If you specify the units in the job setup window to inches, then all the vectors should be scaled to inches when the DXF file is imported. The way it is now, when the DXF file is imported, your CAD design vectors are scaled in mm and thus are 25.4 times smaller than they are supposed to be. This seems like a simple code fix to resolve this. Can this finally be resolved in one of the upcoming V7 versions?
Agreed this needs to be fixed.
Yes, but I wish Carbide3D would acknowledge that it needs to be fixed and will fix it. I first found this import dxf scaling error in V5 and it is still in V7. I don’t see the point of having a CC function allowing users to import dxf files if it doesn’t work to scale them right.
Agreed, this needs fixing.
Since we know it’s 25.4 it’s easy to adjust and I always check a hole size/radius to make certain scale is correct but would be really nice if it just worked.
There is a problem doing it that way having to do with segment resolution. If you’re trying to import a dxf file and scale it after importing by introducing a 25.4 scaling factor this doesn’t change anything for resolution for objects with curved edges. Carbide Create does not perform any smoothing of curves during the import. So the result of scaling up with the 25.4 is very poor resolution of anything that has a curved edge approximated with line segments. This is why carbide3D needs to fix this so the import is performed in the same manner that other CAD tools perform this import dxf function. LibreCAD does this curved edge smoothing when importing a dxf file and it gets scaled correctly too.
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