VB File converter

[MetLHead]

This is a file converter that I wrote for somebody here on the Zone. I'm posting the Visual Basic source code for it here hoping that someone else might find it useful.

Regards,
Scott

[braidmeister]

I tried a 3D .NC file out of DeskProto....Looks like it just eliminates the N- prefixes (line numbers) from the file...Is that right? What does this converter do exactly?

-Brady

[MetLHead]

Sorry, I should have explained it better. This program doesn't do anything useful for you or I, but was written for somebody who had a specific need for it. I posted it here because it is a good template for other VB programmers to write file converters with.

Scott

[braidmeister]

Originally Posted by MetLHead Sorry, I should have explained it better. This program doesn't do anything useful for you or I, but was written for somebody who had a specific need for it. I posted it here because it is a good template for other VB programmers to write file converters with. Scott

It would be REALLY useful if you could clue us in on it's original purpose...specifically.

-Brady

[MetLHead]

Check out this thread for its original purpose:

Any Way to Improve Processing G Code with Excel?

Basically, it provides a list that you can add files to. When you click 'Convert', it goes through the list and passes each file to the conversion routine which can be modified to do whatever sort of conversion you need. I've used it to convert other file formats to GCode, DXF and others.

Scott