Converting a .tap file

[Bigtyme]

Woodworkers Journal sent out a nice free project yesterday. It is a football shaped serving tray. It is a nice design. I suppose I could re-create it in Designer, but wondered if there was a way to convert the .tap files they included to something that could be carved on my CarveWright. I have stl importer and sculptor as well as 3. Designer, but I can't seem to find a program that converts .tap files to stl files. Has anyone figured this out? WJ regularly sends out free files but they are always .tap files. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

CNCFootballTrayFiles.zip

[bjbethke]

Woodworkers Journal sent out a nice free project yesterday. It is a football shaped serving tray. It is a nice design. I suppose I could re-create it in Designer, but wondered if there was a way to convert the .tap files they included to something that could be carved on my CarveWright. I have stl importer and sculptor as well as 3. Designer, but I can't seem to find a program that converts .tap files to stl files. Has anyone figured this out? WJ regularly sends out free files but they are always .tap files. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

CNCFootballTrayFiles.zip

Hi, This is a Aspire program. I use the Aspire 4.0 - this was made by a newer update.

This was also in Woodworker's Journal

[dbfletcher]

For what its worth, i opened those .tap files in notepad. They look like standard g-code to me, so I would think you can find a utility that will convert it to an STL or some other format that can be used by the carvewright. I don't do much on the carvewright anymore, but if I get some time, I'll see what types of converters I can dig up.

[Bigtyme]

Thx guys... I tried to find a convert program but wasn't successful. They pass on some great free projects but always in tap format ....

[bjbethke]

Thx guys... I tried to find a convert program but wasn't successful. They pass on some great free projects but always in tap format ....

Hi - I used the pattern from Woodworker's Journal

[Alan Malmstrom]

The tap files are g-code and can be opened in Mach4 trial, but it's just pockets and doesn't look like the images that bjbethke shows.

[bjbethke]

Woodworkers Journal sent out a nice free project yesterday. It is a football shaped serving tray. It is a nice design. I suppose I could re-create it in Designer, but wondered if there was a way to convert the .tap files they included to something that could be carved on my CarveWright. I have stl importer and sculptor as well as 3. Designer, but I can't seem to find a program that converts .tap files to stl files. Has anyone figured this out? WJ regularly sends out free files but they are always .tap files. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

CNCFootballTrayFiles.zip

Hi, I have a MicroCarve program that I can save the Grayscale image in a STL format. I'm not sure if you can make this image work for you. I don't have any of the New CW Programs. I use a lot of off market Programs. The STL file is 23.5 MB and will not load on this forum, but it does load in the CW trial STL importer. See posted images. I can try to send it to you e-mail ("PM" me your e-mail) BJB

[eelamb]

I think he is looking for something like this. I created this one from scratch, no conversion. Full raster, it would be better using pocket cuts (cut paths multiple passes ) as the tap file did.