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I tried the drawing on the Windows version of SheetCam and it did load. Looking at your screen shot it looks like you are using a Linux version. Which version of SheetCam are you using (look in Help->about). Your drawing appears to have a lot of overlapping outlines.In other words you have lines on ...

You will need to modify the post. Go to Options->machine->post processor and click on the 'Edit post' button. Search for G04. You will find code similar to this: post.Text (" G04 P") post.Number (pierceDelay,"0.###") Change it to: post.Text &#4...

I never noticed that rules aren't taken into account. I'll look into fixing that.

It is very unusual for a drawing to crash SheetCam. Could you send me a sample drawing so I can try to figure out what is going on.

You can set the rapid speed of the machine and the pierce time. The cutting time assumes the machine does not have to slow down for corners. I am a little surprised it makes that much difference though.

I'm afraid there isn't any reliable way to detect the outer contour in the post. All you can do is put the outline on a different layer as others have suggested.

Win10 isn't normally that up tight about permissions. Do you have any problems saving other files to the A drive? SheetCam doesn't do anything clever when it saves so it shouldn't have trouble. As a last resort you could post to your C drive then copy the file to your A drive.

Do you have an A drive? If so, is there a disk in it? Try saving to your C drive instead.

Try using the latest development version. I think that plugin is using a function that is only available in recent dev versions.

What happened when you tried to use Wine? You can try copying the svg and knife plugins to the old version of SheetCam but I very much doubt if it will work. I have to admit I haven't tried it so I can't be absolutely sure it won't work. Install the new version is a different folder to the old versi...

You cannot use a standard USB to parallel converter. LinuxCNC/Mach rely on having direct access to the printer port. USB is simply too slow for this application. It is also generally a bad idea to use a laptop for machine control. Laptops have very aggressive power management which can interfere wit...

Oops, my bad. I missed that G3 at the star of the file. The problem is that the g-code use absolute arc centres and the RS274NGC interpreter used by SheetCam expects incremental arc centres. I am afraid there isn't currently any way to change this.

Ubuntu 10.04 is a bit too old to run the latest SheetCam release. One problem with trying to support different version of Linux is that they keep changing things so I have to keep updating my release to keep up. This breaks compatibility with older versions of Linux. Unfortunately there isn't a lot ...

post.Text simply outputs text with added line numbers if needed. ModalText is similar but the text is only output if it has changed from the last call to ModalText. For instance: post.ModalText("G0") post.ModalText("G0") post.ModalText(&quo...

I had a look at that tap file and there aren't any circles in it. There are just three rectangular shapes. It looks like the issue is in whatever program created the tap file.