Need Help Please!!!!!!!

[keelhauled]

I have a client who wants me to cut out a sign for him. Essentially it will be a light box with the letters cut out of 1/2" MDF, sprayed and opal perspex inserted in a rebate . He can send me the logo via email . How do I get it from my email on my laptop to my works computer and get Alphacam to recognise it ?????

Regards

Mick

[cabnet636]

then tell us what type file it is jim

[keelhauled]

Thanks Jim

I opened it with Adobe Reader. Where do I go from here??

Mick

[cabnet636]

are you working for a company who uses alphacam, what do you normally do with it, alphacam is planits software and they have no shortage of support on this.

http://support.alphacam.com/Resource...ing/Router.pdf

http://support.alphacam.com/Page.cfm/PageID:106

what is the file extension of your routers controller?

[SCRAPWOTSCRAP]

More than likely, the clients logo was created with some sort of art software (adobe,corel, etc). Each has a provision for export as a dxf file. Inform your client you need a dxf file. Upon receipt of that e-mail, copy the file to a cd on your notebook, transfer to your work pc. Import the dxf file into Alphacam. You may need to clean up the file a bit in Alphacam before it can be routed. Hope this helps. I work with alphacam and art files often, this should work for you.

[cabnet636]

the help is here!! thanks jim

[keelhauled]

Thanks Jim and Scrap for your time!

[cabnet636]

when you get done jim

[keelhauled]

The latest update was I got the drawing in dxf format and exported it to alphacam. It turned out that the text was made up of splines so I went to geometery and changed splines to lines and arcs and then I scaled it up to the size I wanted and cut it out. It was simpler than I thought. Pics to follow.