[millman52]

What software do you use to manage/resize etc to create usable art or graphic files for use with sheetcam/mach3

[jeverett915]

Millman i use coreldraw x7 for plasma dxf files but the program is very capable of much more than 2d art

[Torchhead]

There is a free vector drawing tool called Inkscape. Its sort of a CorelDraw clone and has some limitations (like it won't do multipage documents/projects) . It will read a lot of file formats and has auto trace (convert a bitmap to a vector file) It saves everything in SVG format which is handy because SheeCAm imports SVG and the curves and arcs come directly across. My least favourite file format is DXF but pure CAD programs won't handle much else. The DXF export out of CorelDraw is pretty wretched . I use SVG even in CorelDraw now.

[millman52]

There is a free vector drawing tool called Inkscape. Its sort of a CorelDraw clone and has some limitations (like it won't do multipage documents/projects) . It will read a lot of file formats and has auto trace (convert a bitmap to a vector file) It saves everything in SVG format which is handy because SheeCAm imports SVG and the curves and arcs come directly across. My least favourite file format is DXF but pure CAD programs won't handle much else. The DXF export out of CorelDraw is pretty wretched . I use SVG even in CorelDraw now.

Thanks, I'll download it & work with it a bit. It sounds like it may be the very thing I'm looking for & the price is certainly right!!!