FabriCAM Software Opening DXF Supported Files (Part 1) Step by Step Video Tutorial

DXF files are usually associated with CAD and CAM type programs, it is also the most popular format when it comes to CNC machines.

That being said, the great thing about this format being so popular is that getting usable DXF files online is rather simple these days.

This video is part of a Mini-Series.
Next video covers Opening PDF Files.

Video Transcript

Hi guys. In today's video, we're gonna be looking at how to open the X F file format, and this will be for fabric camp. But before that, let's have a quick intro first. So today's video can be found on softwaretraining.co.za. We make sure needs to watch problem solving videos. We also have a daily updates. Otherwise, if we go back into the programme here now, yeah, just so you guys know there's gonna be a miniseries on opening files. We've got about four different file formats to look at, so I'm gonna open year. So you guys just have a look at what we have here now, Obviously, if you know how to do this, you can just skip right along. But for those that have not, I'm gonna just cover the basics of the formats and how to open it. So now, under the format, we've got your cat files, which has got D except for D. W G. But they are more popular. Known for the X f. We've got pdf CAD files pdf then we've got nesting files. This is kind of, um in many ways I would say that, uh, based format for this programme. And then we've got Excel files, which is X l s, but yeah. So today we're gonna be looking at the top one, which is the X F. But in order to do that, I was going to quickly make a small, uh, gxf file just so you guys can get an idea of what it is, and then we'll open it from here. So now I'm gonna get to a programme called Escape. Now, this is a free programme. You can obviously use something like W illustrator or, uh, what's the other one coral draw. But in my case, I'm using escape. It's free. You can just download it. And it's rather, uh, simple to use and quite powerful, in my opinion. So now I've opened a new escape file in my documents set. And yeah, this is obviously not a tutorial on how to use the escape. I'm just gonna show you the basics of the D X f. So I'm gonna make a basic shape here, Uh, open this, make a little Macedo's or ninja star here, whichever you prefer, And then I'm just gonna quickly export this so Well, actually, no, we wanna save it. So let's go to file. We go save or save, as then What you wanna do is under your save as type. I'll zoom in for you guys by default. It's gonna save it as a smart vector Graphics. So this is nice if you wanna edit it later again. So what I wanna do years we select from the drop down We want to go till we find d x f So we've got this one here. Desktop cutting plotter Auto care DX fro 14. I like to use the latest one. Select the file. As you can see, I've already saved a version I say save And then with the actual settings I'm just gonna leave everything as it is. This is not how to make the except files, but more just how to open them. We might in the future, go into why do plan on going through different few different programmes and making different file formats than that Now, if we go back to the actual programme now, we can select this gxf file. It's gonna give us a few seconds as it reads, and then then we can see, we've got a shape because they selected. And then what? You might notice once we do this, a reason why did this did it this way around, in case you do it. So you get an idea of what's gonna happen. So you're not too worried. So we've got the file here, all of that. And then I'm gonna put manual quantity one, leave everything else that is and at Okay, normally, what would happen if we did not get it this time? I said, we'll give you an error. You must add a sheet first. Now, I have already added a sheet and close it. But if that happens, you can simply just first go new sheet, choose the dimensions you want being one, and then we've got it here now. So now if I click add part, you can see we've got our gxf file here. So, like I said, if it's the first time, you sure. So if you've opened the programme and not open a new sheet yet, then it will give you everything. You should first create a new sheet and then so if I give you that era which I would have liked it ever gave us. But now, unfortunately, I already closed the sheet, so it registered as if there was a shit. Yeah, So that is it on opening day except files. It's rather simple. Just a quick recap. We want to get to this open file. You can also go to on top file and then you go to open file, click that you navigate like normal windows to your gxf file. If you do not see it, it might be that the file type or file off type is set to something else like, let's say, pdf you think you won't see it? Just make sure said the X f selected the X pf and then open it. But yeah, that is it on opening the XF files before you get to the next tutorial. If we go here to softwaretraining.co.za hat you guys will notice, we've got a variety of different Softwares will recover, and you can also isolate your search on the top of right. If you do not, however, find the training videos you're looking forward. Just simply go here, request the training video filling in uniform, and then we'll do our best to try and make that for you. But otherwise thanks guys, for watching and cheers