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CAD to CAM with Solidworks
I've just built a homemade CNC machine for fun this summer and am now trying to figure out the best way to go from CAD to G-Code. I'm controlling the machine with Mach3, which is a free program that runs standard G-code.
I have both the Solidworks Student Design Kit and the Student Edition of Inventor (but I prefer Solidworks), and would like to find a free (or low cost) program to go from CAD files to G-code. I've tried using a trial version of CamBam, which makes it very easy to generate G-code, but it can only import dxf or stl files. Is there an easy way to convert a Solidworks file to dxf or stl? 
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