Problems laser cutting arcs anc circles.

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Gazza
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Problems laser cutting arcs anc circles.

Post by Gazza » Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:58 pm

Hi all,

My OS is windows 7 pro SP1 and I am running QCad Pro Ver 3.15.5.0

I'm having trouble with sending arcs and circles to our Trotec SP500 laser. The arcs /circles print as a series of straight lines causing the laser to cut many sided polygons. When I send beziers to the driver the curves cut really smoothly as I would expect.

In Corel draw there is and option to "Send beziers and paths to driver" that seems to cure this issue.

When I say driver I mean that the SP5000 uses a print driver to catch the data and format it into the vector paths for the laser. I've not noticed this happening when I print to a real printer!

Any ideas ?

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Re: Problems laser cutting arcs anc circles.

Post by Clive » Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:14 pm

Garry,

Are you able to use Trolltec's software (JC) direct with QCAD, or are you restricted with using CorelDraw as the doorway?
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Re: Problems laser cutting arcs anc circles.

Post by Gazza » Mon Aug 06, 2018 10:18 am

Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately yes Coral Draw's doorway. I've been trying to get more information from Trotec but it's a difficult process.
It's a bit of a pain as Coral Draw's a graphics package not a CAD package.
Does anyone know how QCAD draws lines and curves to the printer is it through windows graphic API's or bespoke routines? I'm thinking that a different version of windows may solve the issue!

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