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Re: Computer assisted design
Posted By: John Fereira In Response To: Re: Computer assisted design (Alan Resinger)
Date: Friday, 19 February 1999, at 2:55 p.m.
> I tried to use Excel and import the data into a couple of drawing programs
> with less than great success. I purchased a program called TurboSketch
> from IMSI and simply input the numbers from the book into the X and Y
> coordinates. You have to be careful with the order you input because the
> program is a simplified CAD program and I used the snap to grid with the
> arc tool. If you input in the wrong order you get some strange lines. I
> then used the mirror command and ended up with perfect forms.This sort of what I ended up doing.
After putting in all the X/Y coordinates in an Excel sheet I could sort on the second column and have a list of coordinates for entering into the CAD program. I entered two sets of X/Y coordinates as I followed down the spread sheet. The first line was from the coordinates in row 1 to row 2, the second from row 2 to row 3, the third row 3 to row 4, and so on. It was a bit time consuming so I was hoping for an easier way where I would only have to enter the X/Y coordinates once.
The nice thing about the Autodesk QuickCad program is that it will print the curve full size on multiple sheets of paper that can be taped together and then traced onto a single large piece of paper.
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