The drill output file is named Excellon or NC Drill. (Gerber and HPGL outputs are for milling only, not for drilling). Try to get one of these first. After that, you have to ask the CNC Machine producer for the Machine's software. I can e-mail you one, but I'm not sure it will fit your machine. Cristian. At 02:14 PM 3/12/2002 +0000, you wrote: >I may have picked this up wrong , but you wish to use the CNC to drill the >holes. If this is the case then you should really create a drill file from >your cad package. This is normally a text file from which you could easily >extract the hole positions. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu