ok, there is a good and a bad to this. the good is that what you want to do can be done and actually it is pretty easy, the bad is it requires mastercam. currently that is the only program out there that i know of that has a post processor for the emco compact5. i will walk through how i do it and if you want more info because it sounds like it will work for your setup let me know and i can get into more detail. first i use autocad to draw up what i want to cut. after i get it done i then save it as a autocad lite/12 .dxf file. from there i load it into mastercam. I have the emco as my default post for the application. i go to the toolpaths and tell it where to rough and finish and the cutting depts and then i post it out and save it to a file. after that i have my emco connected to my pc and transfer the file over using a program called nclite, i zero out my part then run the program.
if that sounds like it might work for you or whatever let me know and i'll help you out however i can.
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