Can I Manipulate a hole into a slot?

[jmaxwellL7MLG]

I know that advance steel can produce NC1 files so that is why i am posting here

I don't use Advance Steel I do However use AutoCAD 2007 but sometime its more of a hassle 

I have a DXF Generator that I use With it too

We Get .NC1 files from our detailer 

and I would like to know if I can manipulate a hole in to a slot I have searched and searched and can not find this information 

first attachment is the original file(screenshot HSS31.png) and the second (screenshot HSS31test.png) is what I tried that did not change anything 

I am trying to change the original 9/16 hole into a 13/16 x 1 slot 

If this makes sense to anyone please help

[markhubrich]

I have used this in the past with great success...  https://www.atekautomation.com/steelsolutions/    

[Dias_Antonio]

Hi

Due the fact that a Hole, in Advance Steel, was generated by a Macro, after you generated the drawings and the NC1 file. Inside the Advance Steel environment you can not edit the dimensions of the hole.

In this case I suggest you Explode the drawing and follow the work to AutoCAD or other software to edit...

Good luck

[AleckGiles · Accepted solution]

Hi,

NC1 files are just glorified text files. So they are easy to edit manually if you know the code.

For a slotted hole try to match the above image.

1= X coordinate

2= Y coordinate

3= slot width (hole diameter)

4= always zero for a slotted hole

5= the letter l for Lima (not a figure 1) means a slotted hole

6= length of straight portion of hole

7= extra width beyond hole diameter

8=angle of the hole from X direction.

So I think yours should be:-

v20.00   50.00   20.63  0.00l   4.77  0.00   0.00

[jmaxwellL7MLG]

Thank You 

This is Exactly what I was Looking for 

I thought Slots Were 0.001 so it never worked 

thank you for clearing that up for me