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Funny, that's what I thought when I saw the poll :confused:

I noticed this in your file -
If you need to view documentation regarding the VB Script language itself, please refer to SCRIPT56.CHM in the ‘Help’ sub-directory of your Mastercam installation.
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My understanding is that VB sort of comes in three versions
1) Visual Basic (VB). A programming language that enables you to create stand alone programs (exe's also dll's), some of which can...

Not having access to Mastercam I can't advise further, but found this on another forum:-
"I understand that Mastercam will have VBA in the near future. This level of automation will be much easier...

Are you working with stand alone VB, or does Mastercam use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as it's macro language?

Either way, a basic understanding of VB syntax is a good starting point.

Does anyone know if current laser cutting software can cope with cutting holes etc in a sheet pre-cut to the finished overall size?

What I'm thinking is that rather than put an oversize sheet up...

My copy of SketchUp v6 gives the following options for export to DXF or DWG -
R12, R13, R14, 2000 and 2004

Good though SketchUp is, it doesn't do true arcs and circles but approximations of multiple straight lines (you can set the number you want according to your accuracy).

Also if you want to export...

Any suggestions for nesting software for cutting (laser/plasma) sheetmetal parts?

We don't cut ourselves but our estimators would like something to drop the required DXF profiles into that would...

Or Loctite...:)

Looking at the analysis I would expect it to be suitable for gas carburising followed by oil quench.

Thanks, but there's not one file but a few thousand :)

I've made some progress and have a VB program that currently reads the file(s) and writes a corresponding DXF file(s) for lines and circles....

Searching for ESSI I found it's associated with ISO 6582 "Shipbuilding -- Numerical control of machines -- ESSI format".

Maybe I should try to get hold of ISO 6582 ?

This might not be the right forum, but I've got to start somewhere :confused:
Here is some code used to control a laser cutting machine, does anyone recognise it?
I'm being asked to 'reverse...