This online service allows you to upload an Ordered Entity DXF file and have it translated into a Deckel Dialog 4 CNC machine control file. The Ordered Entity DXF file is an ASCII format geometry file created by your CAD program that supports the output of selected drawing entities to a Drawing eXchange Format file and maintains the order in which each entity is selected. This Ordered Entity DXF file differs from a full DXF output of a drawing because the user defines the critical order for the machine tool path and limits the output to just those entities. If you output the geometry by selecting all the entities as a two point rectangular window, most CAD programs will output the entities in the order they were created. Some low end (Lite) CAD programs will not allow selection of entities and will output all the geometry in the order it was created. If your CAD program has this limitation, then you will have to create all the geometry in the exact order and direction you are intending to machine it with.

For best results, create an Ordered Entity DXF data file where the end of each entity is the beginning of the next adjacent entity. Any entity that starts or ends on an exclusive point will invoke the TOOL-ON or TOOL-OFF statement. And finally, any point-to-point data will invoke a GOTO statement with a nested function that depends on the subsequent geometric elements.