Importing DXF to V Carve

[RhB_HJ]

Interesting discovery. All my 2D CAD drawings are done with CADrail, simple reason: Ive been using in for the past 15 years and it can do any kind of stick drawing, not just model railway trackplans. It also allows me to work in Metric or Inch and that's where the problem starts. The exported DXF drawings end up 1/25.4 the size they should be when imported to V Carve. However importing the same drawing to Corel DRAW (V15) shows up the correct size. I guess I could convert the DXF to EPS and then import to V Carve.
Just wondering where the snag is if it works correctly in Corel?

[Tim Owens]

Have no idea. You might want to post that to vectric forum and provide the drawing so they can check it out.
Tim

[RhB_HJ]

Hi Tim,

Just signed up over there and I'm waiting for "clearance".

[Aussie-Jeeper]

Hi,
I'm not sure of the functionality of CADRAIL, But i would think that you need to have both the cad file and v-carve settings to be the same. Either metric or imperial.
Your stated difference of 25.4:1 would suggest that you may have one program set to metric units and the other to imperial.
Andy

[RhB_HJ]

Hi Andy,

Both CADrail and V Carve allow setting the units to metric, if both are set to the proper units things should be OK. For now I'll just scale up the CADrail drawing by 25.4 and then export.