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Hi Jim and Welshoak,

3-8-3 did extend the beam into the housing like I wanted I was hoping that the notch function would do the same. Because the shoulder function creates a housing the full width of the 8" column.

Kayaker

Is it possible when creating the housing for the beam the beam extends into the housing simultaneously.

Thanks!

Kayaker

The end grain as ground suface worked for me !

Kayaker

Hello Jens,

Yes, the notch function did extend to beam into the post by 2" correctly. But the column received a housing 8" wide rather than the 3" width of the beam.

Kayaker

Hi Jens,

The beam is running into the column with its end grain. If you still need a sketch let me know.

Thanks

I have a 3x beam and an 8x column the beam is flush to one side of the column and I want to let this 3x beam into the column and have 2" of bearing ( no tenon ). What I have tried so far gets me a housing the full width of the column I need the housing to be the same width as the 3x beam with 2 " of bearing. Please advise.

Thanks!

Kayaker

Is it possible to draw a curved wall in ground plan? And if so could someone please advise.

Thank You!

Kayaker

Der_Planer,

You saved my day! Now I can head off to the river and go kayaking!

Greatly Appreciated!

Kayaker

Please see attachment. I was able to do a perpendicular drilling in one leg of the connector but have run into problems do a perpendicular drilling in the other where I have assisting geometry points. Can anyone advise?

Kayaker

Hi Der_Planer,

I just thought I would let you know I have my export dxf to my CNC operator all worked out. By exporting out of D-cam and importing into my other cad program and tweaking the drawing. I hope in the near future PlanCad will easily handle exporting to a CNC laser cutting machine. Thanks to all that helped.

Kayaker

Hello Der_Planer

In menu I see my project folder but the file does not exist. Now I have two I Can't find. Shouldn't I be able to locate the file from PlanCad as well? 8O

Kayaker

I'm saving a current view in D-Cam and selecting File formate DXF 2000 and gave it a name. Now where is this file stored? I can not find it. :roll:

Kayaker

Hi The_Planer,

I just saved a current view in D-Cam and selected dxf 2000. Now I need to acess this dxf file from PlanCad and make corrections to the drilled holes. Where do I go from here? Export dxf from PlanCad to my fabricator.

I tried exporting my metal shape by going to 3D export. When I first started to do the 3D export I went to a front view, the view I needed of my metal shape and did the export. I then opened the dxf file in PlanCad and it was in a plan view which was the view I did not need. Today I will call the operator of the laser CNC machine. I'm thinking I'll likely have to do the same as Der_Planer mentioned. I'm thinking it may be best to do a save current view from D-Cam bring it into PlanCad and export dxf from PlanCad.

Thanks!

Kayaker

Can anyone provide a quick explanation (most reliable way) to export a 3-D metal shape created in D-Cam to a CNC machine. :roll:

Thanks!

Kayaker

Ok, now it appears that D-Cad has brought in the hip rafter but the scale of the beam and dimensions don't coincide.

Kayaker

Still having problems. It seems to happen when holes have been drilled in the hip and jack rafter. Again I get dimensions only, no beam lines. 8O
Kayaker

Hi Joachim,

I followed your instructions but it did not work. I then tried the tabloid default and it worked. I guess at this point it only makes sense to create a new company template off the tabloid default.

Kayaker

I have a hip rafter in roof design when I select single beam drawing from roof design, In D-Cad the dimensions are shown and one end view but not the lines of the hip rafter?

Kayaker

Trying to access DLM I receive a dialog box No access to A:\.Device not ready. :roll:

Kayaker