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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Tiny text on v1.0 user interface

« on: August 30, 2023, 21:07:19 pm »

Here's an image showing my desktop icon size, file explorer text sizes, CB v1 text size, and CB 0.9.8 text sizes for reference.  CB 1.0 is clearly smaller than anything else I use.  And i s unaffected by normal Win10 font size/dpi scaling changes.  The image make it look bigger than it is in person.  V1 is clearer text, but very small on a 15.5" monitor  The F in File and L in layers is 1.5mm tall.

edit: I found that the default setting for the "scaling" in the Display settings is 125% (recommended).  If I set it to 100%, everything gets small and v9 and v1 CB match.  If I set it back to 125%, the default and recommended setting, v9 gets bigger, v1 does not.  Empirical evidence is that v1.0 isn't obeying resolution changes in windows..

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CamBam help (General usage) / Tiny text on v1.0 user interface

« on: August 29, 2023, 02:26:13 am »

I've installed 1.0 onto a new to me laptop, set up my license, transferred my configs.  Fresh install of Windows 10. Laptop has a decent display, 15.5" diag, 1920x1080 resolution.  My desktop's display is 1920x1200 (higher resolution).  But the Cambam UI on laptop's display is very, very small.  I tried adjusting windows text settings.  That causes the items in the properties window to get bigger (and get cropped if you set the size up very much), but the UI items on the menubar and in the "tree" remain unchanged, still tiny.  By tree I mean the box immediately below where the Drawing and System tabs are.  <ctrl><+>, nor <ctrl><shift><+> work at all in Cambam's window, and the <Win><+> functionality does the same as the settings from control panel.

Out of curiosity, I installed 0.9.8.  It's text on both the UI menubar and "tree" is substantially larger. 

On my desktop, the text is the same size on both versions.

I don't see any options in CamBam preferences for setting the interface text size.  Is there a way to correct this?

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 02, 2021, 15:47:21 pm »

David, thanks for checking.  Inconsistent behavior in F360.  Alas, it is not a problem.  I had forgot the peck operation wasn't fussy about the tool size mismatch, I had originally set it to spiral.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 02, 2021, 15:36:51 pm »

Hello

It's opening up for me at 0.125 there may be a setting in CamBam options that does it.

Same for me on both 0.98P and 1.0 (Win versions) ... and I can't see any setting for that ...

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David

David, try this one, I just verified it was "wrong" on my end, and CamBam shows it as wrong (not quite .125).  Just curious.

Inside the DXF is has the radius, which F360 should have made 0.0625

Code: [Select]

AcDbCircle
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0.062499999999999986

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 02, 2021, 15:27:58 pm »

Cause I didn't know v1 was released till a few minutes ago.  Auto-version check didn't pick up on it.  It's so f'ing rock solid stable I dare not mess with what works LOL.  One of my FAVORITE pieces of software.  Wish everyone's worked like it does.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 02, 2021, 15:24:45 pm »

Well, this morning I opened the attachment form my OP, it showed .125".  Weird.  I made another one and it had the error.  Made a 3rd and it did not have the error (Inside the DXF) so clearly F360 has some inconsistencies in rounding going on.

Oh well, I'm not going to worry about it.  I have to peck drill anyway so I'm good.  Screenshot of bad one FYI:

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 02, 2021, 14:49:42 pm »

With the hole diameter and tool diameter the same the only drilling method is 'canned cycle' (peck drilling). And in this case CamBam will not complain and will generate the required code.
Actually you can use a smaller or lager physical drill in the actual drilling process.

Thanks, I hadn't run CamBam in a while and didn't remember that I couldn't do a normal (spiral) drill with a hole=tool.  And peck is OK with the discrepancy.  SO that's good.  But I'm really wondering why @Eddycurrent 's setup is showing differently.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 02, 2021, 14:46:57 pm »

Now THAT is interesting.  I literally looked in the DXF file (with text editor) and the dimensions there are the 9 decimal place wrong version.

I wonder why my CamBam displays all the digits in the properties column.  Is there a setting somewhere I can adjust?

My version:
CamBam plus [0.9] Rel 8P
CamBam.CAD : 0.9.5729.19316
CamBam : 0.9.5729.19317
Build Date : 9/8/2015 11:43:52 AM
Framework Version : 2.0.50727.9151

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 02, 2021, 03:30:56 am »

I looked inside the DXF.  Problem is with Fusion360, it coded the hole size wrong.  Appears to choke on imperial units, no error on metric.  Alas, my tooling is imperial.

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CamBam help (General usage) / DXF Import circle diameter inaccuracy

« on: August 01, 2021, 22:21:26 pm »

I teach a high school robotics program and this season we started using Fusion 360 for CAD.  When I export a a DXF with a specific hole size, CamBam is seeing it as a slightly smaller hole.  The hole is designed at 0.125", CamBam shows it as "0.12499999999999994".  I use a .125 tool and so if I try to drill a .125 hole with the tool I get an error.

My first assumption was it was F360 causing the problem, and it may be still.  For what it's worth, I opened the same DXF in my old CAD software and that shows the hols as 0.125, correctly.

The problem is reproducible.  I've attached a sample export with the offending hole.

Recommendations for a fix or workaround?

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Text size problems

« on: May 24, 2019, 01:17:05 am »

Would be handy to be able to enter a decimal value in size if it's to represent Units height.  Alas, it will pick up the decimal from properties, but I get a ding if I try to enter 0.3 for example.

It's the case, I can enter decimal value both in the editor or in the property grid.

 Right, see now.  It was the ding I took for an error that threw me.  Not sure what the ding is meant to be telling me

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Text size problems

« on: May 23, 2019, 23:29:38 pm »

Thanks, I didn't think to look at properties window.  I see the problem now though.  Selecting a (any) font in the text dialog box and set the size to "7".  One assumes that's 7 points in fontland.  But no, that translates to a text size of "7" in the properties box. For the UK guys I guess that's 7mm and not so bad, but for my setup that's 7", a little large LOL.  Minor bug.  I can live with it   Would be handy to be able to enter a decimal value in size if it's to represent Units height.  Alas, it will pick up the decimal from properties, but I get a ding if I try to enter 0.3 for example.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Text size problems

« on: May 23, 2019, 22:51:33 pm »

I haven't needed to use Cambam text much but today I wanted to add some notes to my file.  I have Cambam stick fonts installed as well.  Wen I choose the text tool the smallest fint I can pick is about 2" tall on the drawing and unreadable in the text window  when typing.  When searching for the solution I saw where someone else said small text was too small in their text window to see/edit, so I figure there must be some setting somewhere I've got wrong.  Because I cant get any font small, stick, Arial, anything.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Choppy motion when doing 3D profile

« on: May 23, 2019, 21:24:59 pm »

Turning off toolpath display may help no matter what interface is used. Worth trying.

Thanks.  I'm using a custom screen/skin for Mach3, I'll have to see if I can find where to turn it off. (2010 Screenset I think it's called).

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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Choppy motion when doing 3D profile

« on: May 21, 2019, 12:37:45 pm »

No, I'm using a UNC100 (I think) USB driver.  That goes to a parallel port in a Geko drive.