Can anyone help?

[LarryM]

@berserker

could i just work from vcarve offline at the workshop & plug the laptop into the x-carve?

Yes. I use Vcarve, UGCS, PicSender, and Rhino for my designs. All off line products. I don’t use any internet based software.

USB from the computer to the X-carve.

Maybe this will help: (Just be aware that the post processors linked to in that post are not the right ones to use with Vcarve and the X-carve).

V_Carve Pro (Desktop) workflow overview

V-Carve Pro generates a G-code file. You will need the Inventables Post Processor for V-Carve here: It’s the X_Carve_PostP.zip file. If you took the defaults for the V_Carve Pro installation, unzip this file into: C:\ProgramData\Vectric\VCarve Pro\V8.0\My_PostP Once you get the project generated in V_Carve Pro and set up your toolpaths, use the save toolpath option in V_Carve Pro. This saves the G-code into a file that Universal G-code Sender (UGCS) can read and send to the X-Carve, (NOTE: E…