One of the main advantages of the my program and costycnc machines is the ease of programming. There are many people working in the field of polystyrene creation but who have no programming skills. He will would need a machine that automatically cuts the polystyrene to help them work, but the impediment of not buying an automatic polystyrene cutting machine is not the cost but the fact that they do not know how to use this machine. To be able to schedule my cnc, you just need to know minimal like how to copy and paste an image, or just know how to use microsoft paint if you not have the image to cut. Only that! Open your image in my program and save it, in this mode you have create the automated code that the machine understands and you can use it for cut.
For cut , you need prepare a image , ideal is black and white (but you can experimenting with colors) and open all closed shapes with a white line (see below on the site how edit a image for cut). Keep in mind that hot wire make a single cut , not have acces to close shapes. Cnc begin cut from a point and return at that point .The cnc making a continuous cut from begin to end.
Open the image with "Scegli file" button (dipends of your language how is named this button, here is in italian language).
When you download a image , in backround running more programs that make your job automatically, from image to gcode, in this mode you not need use intermediar programs ( like inskape,autocad,ecc).
If you want modify size of image, you need modify "scale" .But first need to make a refresh the page, modify "scale" and after download the image again
Now you can save gcode . Make attention where save this file because will need in the next step !
Your cnc , similar to all cnc from the world, have a program who can interpret the standard gcode create by you first.Exist many gcodesender programs , but i reccomand gcodesender from google crome HERE .After install gcodesender , open gcode file (you can open gcode file even if not have costycnc machine buy yet).
Now you are ready to begin cut , only need push button "send to machine " and if you already have buyed costycnc machine ... machine begin cutting!