To deal with fonts select your text ->Object ->Expand. Newer versions of Illustrator use polylines with handles and these old software programs dont know how to deal with them. Hi CNC software like Kasemake uses R12 files. Hopefully there is a solution that you or others will be able to assist me with that involves freeware or just looking at the problem in a way that I have not.

With the Bezarc files when I opened them up in Bobcad, the files did require some clean up but the splining looked pretty clean all around. I also tried working with corel but the dxf files exported out show faceted lines intead of true arcs. I am trying to find a good eps to dxf conversion or ai to r-12 dxf conversion software that is more affordable. I did the same with a representative of Bezarc and that software does work very well BUT costs 500 bucks. I spoke to the creator of Interflux, he converted my files but to no avail. I am having the exact same problem and was wondering if you ultimately found a good solution. Has anyone tried this at all? Bare with me as I'm not sure what cnc software they are using which I will find out tomorrow. Corel Draw will open Illy files so it may be a case of simply opening your existing files in Corel Draw and re-saving them as HPGL files that can then be read by your CAM software. You may find that you have to change your drawing software to get the results you want. The solution I found was to do all my 'artistic' drawings in Corel Draw (early versions work fine) and save them as HPGL files and my CAM software (SheetCam) reads them with no problems provided that they are drawn 'correctly' (i.e. However, since I got into home CNC I discovered that Illustrator files do cause problems when exported as dxf files and very few CAM applications (if any) will read eps files. I used to work as a technical writer/technical illustrator (before I became medically disabled) and my tool of choice for illustrations was always Illustrator. Has anyone tried this at all? Bare with me as I'm not sure what cnc software they are using which I will find out tomorrow.If you can find out what CAM software they use to convert the files it may help us out. I want to be able to save these hard working guys from redrawing something we have already drawn. Is there and good piece of conversion software that will let a designer properly save or convert the file? We have tried exporting dxf files which don't work the way they want. The cnc programmer then has to redraw / trace the whole thing in order to get it to cut smoothly which seems to me is wasting a lot of time. Right now we have vector lines that are being drawn in Adobe Illustrator such as lettering or designs. As a designer, I am looking for the proper way to export Adobe illustrator files so that Our CNC programming time can be reduced.

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