>Can anyone tell me how or where to go to find out how to convert Autocad LT drawings into programs our CNC machining centers can use? Autocad assured me it would do this when we bought it. I just can't seem to find any info on it.Thanks
Barry,
You cannot convert AutoCAD drawings into CNC programs without using
additional software which takes the drawing geometry and creates the
corresponding NC instructions (which differ from machine to machine).
You need (and probably have) an NC-generation program. To transfer
your drawings into this programming system, you will use a file format
both programs (AutoCAD and the NC-programming system) know. This could
be DWG, but it is very liekly that it's DXF. Every NC-programming
system in the world can read DXF files, but you may need to experiment
a bit about which version of DXF works best. You select the DXF
version to write using AutoCAD's saveAs or DXFout dialogs.
Dietmar Rudolph
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