Originally Posted by monte55 
I went back and opened up the Open.crv file in VCarve's Trial Version and tried to export it to Mach 3. To do that export, I had to highlight all of the vectors and then got an error message saying: Exporting of vectors is not available in the trial version of the software..
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Nick,
As Torchead as explained....You should be saving the toolpaths as a GCode file....
The option to Export is for using the file with other software.
Once you generate the toolpaths in VCP then you can save them as a GCode file then take that GCode file and open it in Mach.
The file will be a text file with the extension of .txt or .tap depending upon your post processor that you are using.
I use Mach 3 and and if there are any problems, I'm not aware of them.
Vcarve Pro and Mach 3 work great together.
The process of taking a dxf or a EPS and getting a machine readable GCode file is basically the same for all cam software.
In VCP it's a click click cut.
Good Luck and hopefuly you will be able to see how truely easy this software is to use.
Chuck