Martin, I beg to differ. Autocad does in fact use a WCS World Coordinate System as well as a user defined system UCS if selected. All things cad cam related use the cartesian coordinate system. Michael
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I fathomed out the import problem > Autocad drawings do not work from an absolute datum like > we do in Smartcam > and the drawings in question were so far away from x0 y0 > (i.e. on the moon) > that Smartcam did not recognise them. the way i got around > it was to move the > elements to x0 y0 in Autocad and then import the file > > Martin Jarvis -- Michael Gailey Visit our CAD/CAM/CNC Programming and 3D modeling website http://www.microsystemsgeorgia.com/toc.htm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
