Thread: X-Carve as a budget CNC?
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Re: X-Carve as a budget CNC?
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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post
Not sure off the top of my head exactly what it is, I googled the EZ-TRAK and the layout is very similar but the interface is different than anything I could see in image search. I'll see if I can dig up a picture I took of it a while back (won't be back in the shop till next week to look).

I think one of our mentors manually edited some generated G-Code to make it work one time a while back, but I think he decided it was too impractical to do on a regular basis as he never tried it again. Unfortunately HSMxpress doesn't help us much as we CAD in Inventor, though I have been meaning to try out the CAM tools in Fusion 360, which appear to be similar.
Inventor HSM, HSMXpress, and Fusion 360 are pretty much identical. They are all based on the Autodesk HSM kernel. You can select custom output options in "Post Process" > "Post Configuration" to output EZ-Trak formatted code and file format (.pgm). Hopefully you get more use out of the machine now!