mh-871, plotter??

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mh-871, plotter??

« on: November 14, 2009, 11:50:35 PM »

i was wondering, since this machine is billed as a "cutter/plotter" is htere a program i can get to communicate with it to draw out blueprints and such from cad drawings and files??


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Re: mh-871, plotter??

« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2009, 03:05:43 PM »

Most of the software used with the cutters will import a DWG drawing and then use a pen attachment to plot your drawing


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Re: mh-871, plotter??

« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2009, 04:38:26 PM »

thats what i was looking for, im using sbe to cut, i saw it can take a dxf file, which i think is one option for my cad, but most of my files are in dwg format already.

are there any alternative (free

) programs to download for me to try out?


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« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2009, 01:08:54 PM »

I believe Flexi would be the best option for these files. Flexi starter is relatively low cost and works will with a lot of different file types.

SignBlazer would be a bad option for cutting cad files because SBE has not been updated for the last two years. You will spend more time trying to get the files into the software then you will doing anything else.


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