X-Carve as a budget CNC?

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

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).

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.