[Brooklyn1]

hello all I am newbie...

I have a Fadel VMC .... and I am an auto cad user and have been hand writing code for 15 years.... I need to be able to convert auto cad lines into G code... I don't need to right full programs just need to take the pain out of more complicated tool paths.... what works well

[txcncman]

You did not fully describe the method you act actually using now. I also started off using AutoCad when programming. On a new layer, I would offset the geometry by the radius of the cutter I wanted to use and then use ordinate dimensioning to get all of the X, Y points.

[DareBee]

A program like NCPlot may be good for you.

[Brooklyn1]

Yes thats what I do i get the xy and radius.... from auto cad. what I am looking for is an easy free or cheep way to drop 2D tool paths in a program and get code generated with line numbers g12 or 3 and radius...

[Brooklyn1]

A program like NCPlot may be good for you.

thanks I downloaded NCPlot it looks good I just need to figure out how to move the part 0, it seems to drop the file in a random place making the code offset by a random amount?