M/C TO .DWG TRANSLATING

[Toby]

Does anyone know of a standard font to use within Mastercam that, when translated into a .dwg format, will come up with relatively few problems in Autocad? It seems some symbols etc. come up as garbage in Autocad and other features just don't line up quite right.

[Simtech]

AutoCAD uses special caracters for stuff like the diameter symbol and the likes ... I think it's something like %%d

Conversion between AutoCAD and Mastercam works well for all the geometry. When it comes to notes, dimensions, blocks etc ... it does tend to become a bit off track.

Luc

[JAMMAN]

Yeah- I have personally scrapped a part by sending a cut print to the saw using the dim's from a translated .dwg. Just erase the dims and re-dimension with MC. The problem was the original DWG was set up to output fractional and the Mastercam conversion read the rest of the dimension and omitted the fraction. I have never had a problem translating lines and arcs.