After 4 years with vCarve I have purchased my first Shapeoko and am ready to transition to Carbide. I have several complete files from vCarve how can I get them transitioned over so I don’t have to start from scratch?
Sorry to say, but you won’t be able to just convert a Vectric file to a Carbide Create file. About the only thing you can do is save the stuff in Vectric to an SVG or DXF file and bring it into Create that way.
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Export from Vectric, if possible as an SVG as noted by @Brew — fallback file format would be PDF.
The SVG should just open/import in Carbide Create.
A PDF would need to be opened in a 3rd party tool such as Inkscape, then re-saved/exported as an SVG using appropriate settings (96dpi, uncheck “Responsive”, &c.)
I believe you can also just use a Shapeoko post-processor for vCarve if you still wanted to use a Shapeoko but stick with a familiar software.
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If you still have a working copy of Vectric software which you wish to use, as @Spyd notes, it works fine — just select the appropriate post-processor and prepare and send G-code to the machine as normal.
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