Lost CC File on Win Updates, How to recover

[GIban671 (Girard Ibanez)]

I lost my CC file, totally forgot to save CC file but was able to generate a G-code. Anyway to go from a G-Code .nc to c2d file?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

There are two utilities which can do this:

• G-Code Ripper from Scorchworks: http://scorchworks.com/Gcoderipper/gcoderipper.html
• there’s supposed to be a module for this in the opensource pstoedit project

[Julien]

@WillAdams

G-Code Ripper

Hi @WillAdams , is the idea to use the “export as DXF” feature of G-code ripper to get a set of vectors from a g-code file, and then insert that back into CC and recreate the toolpaths ?

[luc.onthego (Luc)]

There is an Inkscape extension that was created by @ClayJar to convert GCode to Inkscape for that very reason. ImportGCode -- An Inkscape Input Extension

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Yes. That’s the idea — of course, one issue is that once one gets the geometry of the toolpath, one has to apply suitable offsets to account for the diameter of the endmill.