Our old CamFive laser controller used .smc files.
We’re upgrading to a Ruida controller and plan to use Lightburn only.
Is it possible to convert .smc files to something Lightburn will recognize?
Thank you!
unfamiliar with those files
Do you have any simple file you could upload for us to take a look?
And the design screenshot so we know whats what!
That could help a lot
It’s Smartcarve software used with older V1 (1st gen) Camfive and Yueming lasers.
Unfortunately, it’s a strange file extension and the forum won’t allow me to upload it here.
If you append a ‘.txt’ extension this will bypass the forum restrictions.
PDF drawings
00-1-502 GASKET, KEYBOARD.pdf.txt (138.8 KB)
00-1-555 GASKET, TV MOUNT BRKT.pdf.txt (141.8 KB)
.smc files, with .txt suffixes
00-1-502 GASKET, KEYBOARD.smc.txt (1.1 MB)
00-1-502 GASKET, KEYBOARD.smc.txt (1.1 MB)
00-1-502 GASKET, KEYBOARD.smc.txt (1.1 MB)
Gil,
I didn’t realize it until I looked at your bio to see that you worked for Ortur.
I have several Ortur products that I bought for my daughter.
You’re very highly regarded on all Ortur forums, thank you for all you do to help the community!
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The files are xml and it’s likely to be a fairly involved process to extract the data you want. If you’re an expert in XSLT you might be able to write a transform for it. Is it just the geometry data you want to extract?
I would agree with Marcus, it doesnt look to me - at first glance something that i would quickly read from a pattern
@LightBurn could have a little look if he would have time and see if its something that he can even mentally parse. Otherwise… might be tough!
From just a quick look, the geometry data appears to be defined in a ‘<Line>’ element. Along with other information the first coordinate looks like it might be X, Y, Z and the rest are just X, Y values
I think I may have found a solution.
Our engineering dept. neglected to tell me that they create these as a DXF and import the DXF into Smartcarve to create the SMC file.
Thank you all, I’ll just use the DXF to lay these parts out in Lightburn.
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I’m pleased you found an easy solution.
Lightburn can also import pdf files.
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