Name - Rajiv Sharma

Branch -Mechanical 3rd year

Roll no-2013163

Write-up for the project

Subject- ME-307d NC Machine Tools
Instructor Dr Prashant Kumar Jain

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A program for generating offset of polyline curve using Dxf format of the Cad drawing .

Introduction Polyline curves are composed of line segments and arcs are widely used in engineering
applications . The program of generating offset comprises of three steps . Firstly , the offsets of all the
segments of polyline curves are calculated . Then all the offsets are trimmed or joined to build polyline
curves that are called untrimmed offset curves . Finally , a clipping algorithm is applied to the untrimmed
offset curves to yield the final result . The offset program can deal with self intersection , overlapping and
small arcs .
Description Polyline curve consist of combination of lines and curves . The program will first take
partwise segments and perform the offset and then these separate offset parts are trimmed and at last a
clipping algorithm is applied to the untrimmed offset curves for the final result . The result is then converted
back to the dxf format file which can be then viewed in any Cad software . In offsetting a given segment of a
polyline curve first we take first and last point of the given segment say line then according to the given
offline distance , the points are shifted and then linear interpolation applied for the given line . In this way all
the segments are offsetted to the given distance and then other parts of program follow it . The program is
written in visual c++ software .