Hi Tim,

A colleague and I have just discovered that the Spline Text Files used in TurboCAD your CSI license, will only work if the text is written in text files with a MS-DOS end of line. Is this still the same with ViaCAD, or has the Mac end of line been taken into account?

Regards...... Alan.

P.s. Just found that it will take an Appleworks Spreadsheet that is saved as an ASCII text file.

Hi Tim,

The files are Mac rich text, Appleworks with Mac EOL and Word for Mac MS-DOS EOL.

Regards...... Alan

Hi Alan,

I looked at the files you sent. Of the files you provided, only the "Word Test MS-Dos.txt" file reads into our software. We only support reading ASCII text files. .cwk, .doc, .rtf, are not formats that we recognize. From Word, you can generate a ASCII file by saving "Text Only". On Mac, Text Edit should also save a .txt file which is ASCII. For ASCII EOL, we support Unix, Mac, and DOS representations so you should not need to worry about that.

This is great. I was having the dickens of a time creating an automotive cam shape. I don't know if the problem was me, a more or less rookie ViaCAD user, of ViaCAD, so I went poking around the forum for some spline curves advice. Found this. I tried a simple circle by hand, and that worked, now I am testing sample shapes in (of all things) Excel, cut/paste into Text edit, and import for subsequent extrusion. Really working great - I now have a convincing cam shape. And now, if I want to create a true analytical cam profile I can use the formula. Groovy! (I betchya that's the first time "Groovy" has been used on this forum!)

markb