Importing vectors and create profile toolpaths in Vectric software | Getting Started | V12 Tutorials

Welcome to our second video in our getting started Series in this video we're going to build on the tools that you learned in our first video so if you haven't seen that one yet I highly suggest you go back and take a look at that one first um what we're going to do in this video is I'm going to show you how to import in a dxf file so an already created file maybe from a customer they may want you to cut maybe a sample part of a job and I'll show you how to go ahead and pull that apart so you can cut a manageable piece of that on your CNC machine in the end we should come up with something like this so let's jump right into the software and I'll show you how to do it as you'll see I have a fresh instance of cut2d desktop open here it's important to remember that all the tools that we're going to look at in cut2d desktop are available in cut2d Pro vcarve desktop vcarve Pro and Aspire as well so we're going to go straight to opening up an existing file point out that down here in the bottom right hand corner of your open dialogue there are a lot of other different file formats that we can open directly into our software so it's just nice to to know what those are for future reference okay so we'll select that and we'll click open