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Joe Soto
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MY FIRST DXF

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Hello everyone, I am trying to cut out a simple sign out of sign board, my problem is in the outline cut (no common close point) could someone look at it and tell me what I am doing wrong? It should be a square with a small border then the image 1in thick.
Thanks
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Post by Jason Susnjara »

Hi Joe,

The reason the file called library signlayered.dxf gives you the error is because of the lines within the cutout of the person. If you look at the image below you will see that the red lines do not have closed entities. Your best bet would be to delete those red lines within the geometry. Just for a test, I deleted the red lines that you see below and then tried to nest the dxf file and it worked.
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Post by Nick M Singer »

Can you use the same layer name more than once Jason?
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Post by Jason Susnjara »

Nick,

You can only have 1 \"Outline\", but you can have multiple \"dados\", \"drills\", \"centertlines\", etc...
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Post by Nick M Singer »

Is that with the provision that one geometry does not run above the other?
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Post by Jason Susnjara »

Nick,

I think there is a bug with using geometry on top of one another but it should work soon if it hasn't allready been fixed.
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Post by Bill Rutherford »

Nick,
As far as I know the bug with recogonizing overlapping geometry regardless of the layer still exists. The answer is to offset the geomety by .001 between layers. Usually .001 will no cause a problem with parts.
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Post by Nick M Singer »

Thanks Jason and Bill. Iwill test it again. I suppose a 0.001 offset is no big deal, I am overjoyed when my staff achieve accuracies of 1mm
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