hey Anssi,
I’ll contact the people from weeks/homag tomorrow, they re-installed the woodwop dxf-import last week on my desktop. wat you’re saying could be something, on my old laptop the dxf-import had more possibilities to adjust the program and turning the layers on or off
these buttons are blocked now,
correction:
weeke/homag
Between PC to MAC I wouldn’t think there would be much difference that would cause a problem. That’s just a guess though.
I’m not familiar with Woodwop, but something else I would be carefully checking is that the layer names you are using match one another in both programs where applicable and that you aren’t using any non-permitted characters in those layer names.
EDIT: Additional further thought before bedtime:
I also find it quite a coincidence that the layers not importing all contain geometry that has been welded into Curves in contrast to the layer that does import that only contains 4 single edges. In the resulting DXF the Curve entities are transformed into Polyline entities.
So, does Woodwop support importing Polyline entities or is it ignoring them? Have you been successful with Curve entities in the past? I know a software I use rejects Polylines and will only accept single Lines. I think it’s rare but it happens.
for checking the content of DXF/DWG documents including the entity types and layers used (as well as for converting the format and version) you may want use the free ODA ‘Drawings Explorer’ for Windows & macOS.
Woodwop is a CAD/CAM control software for Weeke/Homag CNC machine centers. I worked in two shops that used that system and one could not get .dxf import to work for them straight out of AutoCAD and gave up (this does not mean it doesn’t work, just that they didn’t want to try anymore. Don’t know the specific reasons it didn’t work). The other used AlphaCAM to “pre-handle” the .dxf to prepare it for the Weeke/Homag Woodwop system.
Dave0606: It’s not an old Mac issue. I think IanT and Annsi are more on track with the answer. It has to do with the export out of your software and then how Woodwop is reading the .dxf.
opening the DXF/DWG with the ODA Drawings Explorer from above and saving down by “File > Save As…” to the DXF/DWG v2000 => v14 => v12 version until it works may lead to a working solution.
What I find odd is that when the adjacent faces were not erased, or when faces were just unchecked from the export options, the inner welded polylines failed to export at all. I couldn’t reproduce this, at least with circles, in another file.
In my experience Woodwop does not handle DXF blocks, so each SU component must be converted to be unique. Also I could never get horizontal drilling to work when doing POD style machining. We tried to get them to provide technical information about what they were doing but to no avail. I did have good success using polylines and converting arcs into a single line as a Bulge.
Complete circles are for drilling and large routed circles are converted to a polyline (2 lines) as 2 bulges. The 2 bulge strategy provides starting information (entry) and there is a notion of clockwise and anticlockwise.
Weeke’s use of DXF is proprietary but you have to conform to old autocad standards for layer naming. No spaces and 32 character maximum.
It’s been a while and I don’t know whether you solved this or not. But I just stumbled across this article when looking for something else. It looks as though it might help out with the layers.
Thank your for feedback.
Was not the layer names that I had problem with but the drawing (component) itself seem to be to complicated for sketchup to expode.
my plugin goes directly to woodwop
