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Re: X-Carve as a budget CNC?

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Originally Posted by RoboChair View Post
From what you are describing here it sounds like you have an EZ-TRAK? If so you can use HSMxpress to generate G-code for it after tweaking some parameters, that's what we do anyway. Alternatively you can take the time to modify a post processor's code so that it uses the correct syntax that the Bridgeport will understand(or edit the posted code manually if you are feeling masochistic).
Seconded - look at HSMXpress output options. I just generated a file for Anilam conversational control which uses ARC, LINE, RAPID, etc. instead of G00/G01/G02/etc.