I save a job on sheetcam, and open mach 3 and it's not there

[Jonjeff]

So I am really new to this. I saved my collection I got from PS for being a paying member onto a flash drive. I loaded it onto my desktop, but when it try opening it on mach 3 it says file not supported. I tried opening it in sheetcam but can't actually view the picture so I can nest it. Any help or links would be greatly appreciated.

[acourtjester]

Software packages have file formats they can work with. Mach 3 will open G-code files (name.TAP ) SheetCam will open DXF and SVG file formats shown here. The files I got from here were .DXF format. so you should be able to open them in SheetCam if you tell SheetCam at look at DXF files

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[adbuch]

Try using Inkscape to view your svg or dxf files. It is free to download.
David

[Jonjeff]

Thanks for the info I will give that a try.

[adbuch]

Thanks for the info I will give that a try.

[djreiswig]

Are you trying to open a dxf with SheetCam or import a drawing into a part? You need to open SheetCam and add a new part, then select your drawing. It should appear on the workspace so you can move it to the coordinates that you want it to cut. Then you need to set up an operation. Then after everything is set the way you want your drawing to cut, you post process to get the gcode that you can load into mach3. Once you've loaded the gcode, you should be able to see your drawing on the screen and cut it.

[Jonjeff]

Thanks DJ I will give that a try next time I'm in the shop.