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Article: Upgrade nightmare.(Dialog box: readers talk to us)(Letter to the Editor)
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- CADalyst
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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Before you blithely recommend that all Release 14 users upgrade to 2004 (CAD Manager, August 2003, p. 44), walk a mile in my shoes. I program abrasive waterjet machines for our mom-and-pop job shop, and other people's CAD files are the bane of my existence. The 3D people want to send IGES files (no longer supported by AutoCAD) the sign people send EPS files, and every mad inventor uses a two-bit CAD program at home. The proprietary software that writes our CNC machine code needs a DXF file made up of lines and arcs, not NURBS or splines or even polylines. So if someone from Boeing outputs an IGES file from CATIA, I open it in Rhino and export it as a Release 14 DXF. Now ...