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Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« on: November 19, 2021, 03:31:32 PM »
Hi all,
The annoying behaviour (started from early Visio4 1996, while Microsoft was not involved), if page setup is in mm elliptical arcs are not defined when saved as dxf file. But if inch is selected then it works well.
In the image there are two exactly same (should be) are at the same coordinates, so seems as one. These two has shape sheets as shown, one is made up of circular arcs other is elliptical segments. Practically their nodes may have some difference of 0.001mm or so. But in created dxf file one with elliptical definition has only 4 nodes, other has nodes and arcs. Resultant dxf view is at bottom of picture. The entities section of dxf file is below. I don't understand why this is not corrected for two decades  :-\ .
AcDbPolyline
 90
    4
 70
    1
 43
0
 10
244.499949
 20
162
 10
79.99995199999999
 20
156.999988
 10
84.999955
 20
140
 10
249.499952
 20
145.000012
  0
LWPOLYLINE
  5
4E
100
AcDbEntity
  8
0
  6
CONTINUOUS
 62
    7
370
   -1
100
AcDbPolyline
 90
    8
 70
    1
 43
0
 10
84.99995199999999
 20
140
 42
-0.4142139999999995
 10
79.99995199999999
 20
145
 10
79.99995199999999
 20
157
 42
-0.4142139999999994
 10
84.99995199999999
 20
162
 10
244.499952
 20
162
 42
-0.4142139999999996
 10
249.499952
 20
157
 10
249.499952
 20
145
 42
-0.4142139999999996
 10
244.499952
 20
140
  0
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« Last Edit: November 19, 2021, 03:36:07 PM by Kiymik1 »

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Re: Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2021, 02:25:36 AM »
I don't think many people use it
MS Visio suggestion box, you can share your issue. if many users vote for your suggest MS may be fix it.

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Re: Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2021, 03:23:02 AM »
Thanks, similar message one month ago exists there, voted for it and added link to my message for futher information.

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Re: Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2021, 06:43:01 AM »
similar message one month ago exists there
In 2016, MS created a suggestion box based on the third-party service "uservoice.com".
About 2 months ago this service was closed, MS started feedbackportal you can find most of the messages there (but not all of the messages)!

Can you share this suggestion, maybe someone in the Visio Guy forum would vote for this as well?
« Last Edit: November 20, 2021, 09:18:59 AM by Surrogate »

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Re: Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2021, 11:39:00 AM »
First, why would you even do this?  The corner rounding tool is so much easier!  Rhetorical question. 

I'm using Visio2019 Pro, and tried to replicate all possible scenarios.  See attached Visio file and resultant DXF file.

The steps:
1) drew simple rectangle
2) used Corner Rounding to do the rounding.  I was curious what the shapesheet would show.
3) re-drew the original shape to chamfer the corners, thus providing begin/end points for the various arc types
4) used pencil tool to grab inflection point for each corner and dragged to obtain desired rounding.
5) opened shapesheet and changed row type to ArcTo
6) changed row type to EllipticalArcTo
7) saved as both VSDX and DXF files.
8) used DXF Viewer to verify contents of DXF file.  All shapes were fine, but 2nd row of text is incorrect.
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Re: Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2021, 02:50:03 AM »
wapperdude, well, of course I'm doing it properly at the beginning. But my drawing is quite complicated and modifying often, almost every time joining, then trimming, changing something, joining again and so on. I think the problem is visio is changing some values if it is not in inch (try arraying shapes 10mm x 4mm squares, you will see default positions with 3.99999 and 10.00001 steps). When trim and join operations are done this differences tell visio that it is not a circular arc any more, so it defines elliptical arc instead. Normally after checking what is present in dxf file I am deleting the erronous segments, redrawing that segment with circular arc, then dxf is corrected. I may have more than 60 parts to be cut with laser cnc, modifying all erronous shapes this way is quite time consuming and subject to other errors. I also tried if 'Fit curve' changes elliptical arcs to nearest circular arc but it is not working as I expected.

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Re: Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2021, 09:34:00 AM »
Ah!  Ok.  Will look further incorporating  cuts, trims, and joins.  Thanks for clarification.
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Re: Missing nodes when saving as .dxf when unit is in mm.
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2021, 10:56:56 AM »
I constructed a  "shape" using multiple line segments with various roundings.  Duplicated this collection of lines and then joined.  All roundings became ellipitical.  Saved as DXF.  Cannot see any errors.

Can you upload a simple example?  As originally drawn and as a joined (final) version?
« Last Edit: November 22, 2021, 11:03:57 AM by wapperdude »
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