Hey guys,
I was wondering if I could get some help from you guys I am pretty new to the cnc scene and am struggling with 2 programs.
I am a 3d printing enthusiast, so while on thingiverse.com i spotted this
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3829, and thought what an awesome thing to cut. I converted the svg to a dxf using ink scape and following a tutorial I found, then I brought the dxf into Vcarve and joined the vectors. I started to make my tool paths using an 1/8" end mill for all parts. I tried both saving all visable tool paths to one file since I'm not changing tools as well as individually. I have been saving as mach3arc.mm and also tried mach3arc.in and just gcode.tap when i could not get the tool paths to show up .
I have tried switching commands in the general config IJ to absolute and incremental, after flip flopping them a few times some times i can get the full tool path to come up but it still displays errors at the bottom of the mach3 window.
I have attached the screen shot of mach 3 as well as the mach3arc file generated by v carve as well as the .tap file both yield the same results.
hopefully someone can give me some help or insight. thanks in advance for reading this
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