![]() The purpose of a CAM program (in VCarve or Fusion 360 it is integrated, mastercam is a stand alone CAM program, there are many others) is to allow creation of toolpaths, which carve out your model, from a piece of stock (defined by you), using bits chosen by you. It sounds as if you are a little unclear. No model geometry exists in the gcode and you can not recreate the model from it. You need to make sure you also save your model (2D/3D geometry) in whatever form your design software saves it in. Your model is not saved in or as a g-code file. The only thing saved in a g-code file are the toolpath(s) created. You can edit them as text even if they are not named as something.txt. The g-code file is a plain text file no matter the file extension (.g-code. So, I guess the issue is whether or not your modeling software can convert to gcode Any editor can open the file and edit/modify since it is just text. ![]() So, after I finish the design, Vcarve converts the model into gcode and saves the file as an ASCII. I use VCarve to create 99% of my gcode files. I have used gcode created by other programs (like for circuit boards) and it worked fine, but I checked the code before I loaded it to make sure there was nothing "stupid" in it. That's one thing I like about Vcarve - it is almost idiot proof. It can get a bit tricky because of the different requirements of each control software application. ![]() ![]() I can also save Sketchup files as STL and convert those to gcode. I can also use Fusion 360 to save the gcode file for Mach3. So, I guess the issue is whether or not your modeling software can convert to gcode and you can set it up for all the particulars of your machine/controller software. They have a configuration file that knows how to talk Mach3. ![]() I am using Mach 3 to control my CNCRP machine. ![]()
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