drowing an elipse

Nemanja Vujkovic · Post by **Nemanja Vujkovic** » Wed, May 23 2007, 10:03AM

i am trying to make an elipticel cut out on a door
what is the iziest way to do that

thank you

Forrest Chapman · Post by **Forrest Chapman** » Wed, May 23 2007, 10:09AM

Cad/cam

Nemanja Vujkovic · Post by **Nemanja Vujkovic** » Wed, May 23 2007, 10:13AM

Forrest

eCabinets in part editor

Forrest Chapman · Post by **Forrest Chapman** » Wed, May 23 2007, 10:43AM

There is no way to do a true elipse in ecabs. you may be able to create the geometry in cad and export to ecabs only I'm not sure it will machine. I'll take a try later.

Forrest

Pete Riddle · Post by **Pete Riddle** » Wed, May 23 2007, 10:54AM

An ellipse is technically a spline. Since eCabinets part editor does not support splines, you will have to create the appropriate size ellipse in another piece of cad/cam software such as AutoCad or Mastercam, and convert that spline to arcs. Once that is done, you can save it as a dxf and import it into the part editor. It will then work properly.

Thanks,

Nemanja Vujkovic · Post by **Nemanja Vujkovic** » Wed, May 23 2007, 11:57AM

thanks for your help guys
i am a litle disapointed right now cause before i did start to work on eCabs i did a elipse on the CNC manualy and it worked great

Mark Hesketh · Post by **Mark Hesketh** » Thu, May 24 2007, 9:17AM

good luck with the elipse. i had to make one months ago and all i remember is that it took me many hours of frustration... and in the end i think it was someone else on the forum that was able to convert my autcad elipse into something ecabs could use for me.

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Sun, May 27 2007, 9:06AM

Nemanja,

What are the actual dims on the elipse you are trying to make? I have Autocad and Acutrans. I may be able to help.