Newbie- What am I doing wrong?

[Rhinorider]

I am a nube that just started building my plasma table. Last night I was fooling around on the net, and downloaded the trail versions of Sheetcam and Mach3. Just to play around with them and learn the ropes. Loaded them both up no problems so far. Then I drew up a part in cad, saved as dxf file. I opened up Sheetcam and loaded the drawing, generated the code and saved the code. Everything looks good, piercings, toolpath, etc. Estimated time to cut 28 seconds.

I then fired up Mach and loaded the G code. The part does not show up, the only thing on the part screen is the rapid movement that Sheetcam shows. When I tell it to start it looks like it is cutting the rapid movement.

I know I won't be needing it for a good while yet, untill I get my table finished (which I just started last week) but it is driving me nuts trying to figure out what is wrong. Thanks for the help in advance.

[Claude Boudreau]

I am not familar with sheetcam, but bob-cad ,and I imagine any other cad-cam software, must be loaded with Mach3 post-processor to produce G-code that mach3 can read.

Maybe you can try that file but it is made for router not plasma(variable Z)