I'm pretty confused as well. I just started building my 'hardware store' cnc today. I was playing around with an old pc and installed EMC2 on top of ubuntu. I have access to Autocad 2006, solidworks and Autodesk Inventor 10. I understand that I need to convert the dxf files from these programs to gcode that EMC2 can read. I've search high and low for conversion programs with no luck. Either the conversion program does nothing at all, or EMC doesn't like the code that is generated. Can anyone point me to a nice step by step tutorial? I found the documentation for EMC to be especially lacking.
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