Originally Posted by SND  Generaly I receive drawings in .PDF for adobe. Is there any program that would allow me to use those files and turn them directly into Gcode to feed to the machine? |
I don't know of a direct route, SND. But you can use the freeware Ghostscript (
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ -- get the GSView front end also) to convert the PDF to a DXF, which Mach2 should be able to import.
I use Sheetcam for 2.5D, and import DXF from my 2D CAD into it. Sheetcam is great, since I can put pockets, outlines, etc. on individual layers of the DXF and assign depth, depth increment, stepover etc. for each layer.
Randy