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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Can't load any files into Mach 3 from Q-cam.

« on: April 17, 2019, 05:08:38 PM »

Wonder if anybody might know what steps I'am missing? I recently picked up Q-cad/cam. I draw up simple test drawing's, enter the correct settings. Watch the cam profile run. Then I try to load it into Mach 3. nothing ever loads. Getting the Bad character used, Block = 0 error. I have tried everything. Tried the diff. post processors. no luck. I can take these same drawing's and drop them right into D2nc and Lazycam and they load very consistently into Mach 3. I really need that Q-cam program to load. Any tips or ideas would be so helpful. Been trying to figure this out for weeks now...I think at one point I did get it to load. But super stuck again. Doing this all on my main online computer, Win 7 64 bit. My Cnc machine is standalone. Xp 32 bit. As soon as I get past this I will send it to my machine. I have ran many small projects now on my cnc. So I have had success. But this cam stuff is really tricky. Peace out.