A real world example of CAD data import.

"I have a need to convert user generated tabular X-Y data into a .DXF format. More specifically, I'm attempting to cut gears on a homemade CNC X-Y table. I mathematically generated the X-Y points for the outline of the gear which includes a tricky involute curve.

"My next step is to convert the X-Y data into G-code which the machine will recognize. I found plenty of shareware to convert a CAD file (.DXF) into G-code. The bottleneck was getting the tabular data into a CAD program so I could eventually export it to a .DXF file.

"If I were a CAD guru, I may have been able to figure something out here. I surely wasn't going to try and manually connect a few thousand points! I found your software doing a WEB search. I downloaded your demo and quickly got the first 25 points of the involute curve (with connecting lines) into my CAD program. I was impressed.

"I easily imported the data (3860 points) and exported the .DXF file. See attached screenshot. Your product was well worth the money to me. Thanks again, George Anderson"

- George Anderson

Here is the final DXF file created by Pointor and imported into his CAD program:

There is a free demo of Pointor here. You can use Pointor for GIS data too of course.

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One happy customer Michael says:
"I was looking for an application that is able to turn .csv files to dxf - and Pointor does!"