IntelliCAD to SheetCAM troubles,,,(was Kipware M)

OK, I have IntelliCAD, and SheetCam and Mach 3. I cannot seem to get
my dxf drawings made in IntelliCad to show up when I try to open them
in SheetCam. The help files don't really help me that much. Anybody
have any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thank you

Barry Young
Young Camera Company

>
> Consider using a conventional CAD program like TurboCAD, QuickCAD,
> IntelliCAD to do drawings (2D) and use a true CAM program like the
> low cost SHeetCAM (100 bucks until Dec 10th) to do your toolpath
> definitions and g-code generation. If you stay with the three
> distinct parts of CNC (CAD->CAM->Controller) then you have a lot

more

> flexibility and the possiblity of good support on the related lists.
> I think conversational programing (programming a part at the

machine

> or using canned shapes) has it's place. In a job shop where the
> person that runs the machine is not the person doing the drawings

or

> CAM setup then it would probably make things flow easier. Most of

us

> hobby guys do all our own stuff so knowing how to use all three
> pieces of the equation has an advantage (and we have no one to

blame

> for a mistake!).
>