Need someone to educate me
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- Vectric Craftsman
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Need someone to educate me
Need help with step by step instructions on how to post a tool path file on the forum. I attempting to produce a simple project the letter "E" I design, set the parameters, and proceed to save the file. The tool begins the cut at approximately line 50 - 70 everything stops. What am I doing wrong?
- adze_cnc
- Vectric Wizard
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Re: Need someone to educate me
If by this you mean the "g-code" file that you send to your machine then be aware that the forum software only allows filenames with specific extensions. File names such as "my_gcode.nc" or "my_gcode.tap" will not work–the forum software doesn't like the .nc or .tap
You will need to do one of two things to attach the file to message here:
- either rename the file to have a .txt extension: my_gcode.txt
- or compress the file to a ZIP file (right click on it in Windows Exploerer; choose "Send to"; choose "Compressed (zipped) folder"; you will now have something like: my_gcode.zip