Exporting table of Cartesian coordinates

Hello folks,

me again. I've drawn a bunch of parts that need to be made on a CNC
machine. In terms of angles and fillet radii the parts are very easy to
anntotate, but the CNC guy needs to have the start and end points of every
line and arc segment in cartesian coordinates. Annotating this part with
ordinate dimensions, as I ususally do for manually machined parts, is a
complete nightmare for this part -- it's almost impossible to do, and when
finished, it's almost impossible to read. So I thought what would be neat
is a way to export this data in a kind of table. Any ideas?

Actually, I think it's stupid anyway to manually transfer -- of all
things! -- numbers from one computer to another one, but the CNC guys says
he can't import files into his machine. I know very little abour CNC, but
that's his realm and I'll have to believe what he says.

Thanks,
--Daniel

 

Hi Daniel,
I would need to see one part as an example.

....anyway if you provide your CNC person with a drawing and the
annotations, why
can't they use that for programming the machine to produce the part?

you sure he's not trying to get you to do his work for him?

s

 

He always does. But in this case the annotations are a forest of lines and
hard to read. There are many instances of vertices that are, say, only
1/20 mm apart in x direction (but plenty in y), which crams the annotation
lines so close together that they become indistinguishable. Of course
there are ways around this, but in the end the drawing is a hell of a lot
more complicated and hard to read than necessary.

Absolutely not.

But anyway, the problem is solved: My CNC guy looked at the dwg and saw
that half of the entities are small fillets all of which are the same
diameter. His machine can do those automatically, I just need to detail
the un-filleted dwg which is easily manageable.

Thanks,
--Daniel