Importing files for Cutting

[Mark S Macy]

Hello to all:

I am new to the subject of laser cutting, and I would like to see if I can get some answers.  I am looking to purchase a 40w CO2 cutter and I am told it comes with Corellaser, I am trying to find out what file this software can import and convert to a laser cutting format.  Any gelp would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

[James Andrews]

Hi Mark,

I believe that they use DRW files based on a quick google search, but I can't confirm that.  However there is an opensource package called "K40 Whisperer" that is a replacement for Corel Laser I believe will take SVG files.   We changed out our K40 controller board last year to a Smoothieboard so we could use Laserweb which takes a few different formats, SVG, PNG, JPEG etc....

James

[MRE]

I think I still have it installed on one of my PCs and can check it later. But being Corel draw, it supports import of a lot of file types (and is a vector drawing application to begin with. So you could use it start to finish in most cases).