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WinPC-NC Light Parameter settings

Data formats and associated parameters

Data format

WinPC-NC understands various NC data formats, and is able to

import these files, display them and perform the movements on the

machine. At present, the commonly used plotter format HPGL, and

two drilling formats are possible.

HPGL is from the well known plotters made by Hewlett Packard and

is supported by almost every CAD or drawing program.

Plotting and

drilling formats

The drilling formats are based on the following standards:

Sieb&Maier1000, Sieb&Maier3000 and Excellon. In other words, it

should be possible to process working files in these formats without

any problems.

The appendix contains a list and description of commands in the

individual formats. In the event of problems during processing, for

example if unknown commands or commands which cannot be

interpreted are encountered, then the working file can be analysed

using this description and revised with the editor.

WinPC-NC usually recognizes the format of the selected file

automatically.

Automatic identification of the format

Usually most of the supporting NC formats are automatically

recognized by WinPC-NC during file opening. It rarely happens that

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