Hello, At our office we have cnc equipment that apparently accepts only two types of file formats, NC1 & DSTV. I would like to know if any of the standard file formats that are normally associated with Inventor (like SAT, IGES, STEP, etc, etc.) can be considered to be an equivalent to either of these? If so which one(s) and if not, does anyone know of a way or program that can convert 'standard' Inventor file formats into either of these more 'exotic' file types?

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Apparently X-steel can export to these file type, but we don't use X-steel. Ps yes we are a structural steel fabricator. Thanks for all of your replies.

SAT format is probably closer to Inventor than any others. However, the kernel used by Inventor is a derived version of Acis.

Inventor supports SAT up to Acis 7.0. Make sure save the file as SAT to Acis 7.0 or lower. Johnson Shiue Test Engineer Autodesk (email: johnsonDOTshiueATautodeskDOTcom) wrote in message news:5243579@discussion.autodesk.com. Hello, At our office we have cnc equipment that apparently accepts only two types of file formats, NC1 & DSTV. I would like to know if any of the standard file formats that are normally associated with Inventor (like SAT, IGES, STEP, etc, etc.) can be considered to be an equivalent to either of these? If so which one(s) and if not, does anyone know of a way or program that can convert 'standard' Inventor file formats into either of these more 'exotic' file types? Bakemonogatari 1 15 Sub Thai Family Outing.

Apparently X-steel can export to these file type, but we don't use X-steel. Postman And Phillips Serial Position Effect Examples. Ps yes we are a structural steel fabricator.

Thanks for all of your replies. CNC equipment (the controller on the CNC actually) reads code that tells the tool what direction to move. This code needs to be generated using a CNC programming tool (some of these like MasterCAM, EdgeCAM, etc) can get geometry directly from an Inventor file but it still needs to be post-processed to generate the code specific to the machine controller.

Is this kind of what you are asking? Wrote in message news:5243579@discussion.autodesk.com. Hello, At our office we have cnc equipment that apparently accepts only two types of file formats, NC1 & DSTV. I would like to know if any of the standard file formats that are normally associated with Inventor (like SAT, IGES, STEP, etc, etc.) can be considered to be an equivalent to either of these?

If so which one(s) and if not, does anyone know of a way or program that can convert 'standard' Inventor file formats into either of these more 'exotic' file types? Apparently X-steel can export to these file type, but we don't use X-steel. Ps yes we are a structural steel fabricator. Thanks for all of your replies.

Hi Dave, Yes, that pretty much sums it up. I would like to save my ipt. Files as a '.x' file but I don't know what the equivalent format would be for NC1 & DSTV file formats. Apparently NC1 & DSTV file formats are native to X-steel, but like I said, we don't use X-steel and I would like to input my models directly into the CNC program interface rather than manually 're-entering' the data.

So I guess I should probably ask, are there any programs that could convert a ipt, sat, step, iges, etc into a NC1 or DSTV format? TC I've not done any CNC work for years and I'm not familiar with either of those two code specs. Inventor is going to be able to output neutral geometry file formats. Many CNC machines will provide packages for importing geometry from DWG, STP, SAT, IGS, etc. And will then post-process that data such that the machine can interpret how to move the stock and/or its cutting head (or probe, or whatever) to deal with the input geometry.