Hi all!! My fiancé just bought a cheap Chinese CNC engraver/carver. I have a 60Wlaser but he wants to expand our business to incorporate a CNC and bought a cheap machine to get the hang of it. So here my dilemma. We bought VCarve Pro & Mach3. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get something we create in VCarve to open and run in Mach3. I can get the file to open in Mach but it won't run. I click the "load G code" button, select the file I want to run and it all comes up on the left side of the screen but there aren't any numbers associated there, just words. What format do you save from VCarve? I've been using the default .crv fomat. Should it be done as a .dxf?? I personally am clueless with the CNC programs and terminology, the laser is MY baby, the CNC is the fiancé's thing. He has little to no computer knowledge so I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure HIS out so I can try to explain it to him. I use Corel & Engravelab for the laser but I can't find any similarities between those and the VCarve/Mach3.
I'm sorry to sound like an idiot but I'm at a loss and I don't know how to make the 2 programs talk to each other.
Thanks!!!
Jodi