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Mach Discussion => Mach3 under Vista => Topic started by: bmurph on August 10, 2011, 09:24:31 PM

Title: "Bad character usedLine 0"
Post by: bmurph on August 10, 2011, 09:24:31 PM

I got demo for my vista laptop, when I load a GCode that came with mach3 I get this error.

Bad character usedLine 0

Title: Re: "Bad character usedLine 0"
Post by: BR549 on August 10, 2011, 09:34:58 PM

AND what was the code on that line??

(;-) TP

Title: Re: "Bad character usedLine 0"
Post by: bmurph on August 10, 2011, 10:55:31 PM

Quote from: BR549 on August 10, 2011, 09:34:58 PM

AND what was the code on that line??

(;-) TP

here is the first few lines of aInnerProfile.dxf

999
dxflib 2.0.4.8
  0
SECTION


and for Closed6.dxf

  0
SECTION
  2
HEADER

Title: Re: "Bad character usedLine 0"
Post by: BR549 on August 10, 2011, 11:38:50 PM

That is a DXF drawing file not a gcode file. Mach3 cannot read it directly.

(;-) TP