Hi Ed, thanks for the kudos, I really appreciate it.
Yes, I purchase my patterns from Ellen Munnich's site. They are pretty reasonable. The site name is
www.quiltrecipes.com. She is really easy to deal with and will do most anything to help short of giving her product away.
ALso, you might want to go to the
www.candcnc.com site, which is where you can get a really good macro called DXFtool for CorelDraw X4, that will convert your drawings to DXF format, then you can load it into LazyCAM really easy. The macro will cost you a few greenbacks, but I think it is a really good buy for what you need.
Do me a favor, and when you make the purchase for DXFtool, mention that I directed you to it. Also, take some pictures of your setup. I am really interested in what you are doing, and I love being a mentor.
Good Luck, Ed, You are going to have a great time with this project, it's really a blast.
I'm sending you a copy of my 1024.set file so that you can see what I have done with it. I have made some very special changes that allow me to input the number of repeats that I need, as well as the number of repeats that are still left to sew. Just unzip the file in your mach3 folder, and then you can see what I have doe with it. Disregard the second page, it is still being developed. I am working on setting up a page that will allow me to set the size of the sewing area so that the program will figure out the number of repeats to put in it.
Larry