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Marius Kintel
Wed, Dec 17, 2014 5:47 PM
From: Marius Kintel marius@kintel.net
Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Center an Imported DXF
Date: December 17, 2014 at 12:35:01 PM EST
To: Scott Guthery sbg@acw.com
On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Scott Guthery sbg@acw.com wrote:
How does one center an imported DXF, either before or after a linear extrude?
When you create designs in external tools, you make design decisions like where the center is.
When importing into OpenSCAD, we preserve this center.
We do have the option of specifying where the logical origin of the imported design is, e.g. import(“file.dxf”, origin=[100,100]);
I guess we could add a center argument to import() - I just haven’t seen the need for it as you should probably do this in your DXF design tool.
-Marius
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net>
> Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Center an Imported DXF
> Date: December 17, 2014 at 12:35:01 PM EST
> To: Scott Guthery <sbg@acw.com>
>
> On Dec 17, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Scott Guthery <sbg@acw.com> wrote:
>
>> How does one center an imported DXF, either before or after a linear extrude?
>
> When you create designs in external tools, you make design decisions like where the center is.
> When importing into OpenSCAD, we preserve this center.
> We do have the option of specifying where the logical origin of the imported design is, e.g. import(“file.dxf”, origin=[100,100]);
>
> I guess we could add a center argument to import() - I just haven’t seen the need for it as you should probably do this in your DXF design tool.
>
> -Marius
>