I am in the market for a decent "bench top" 240v cnc milling machine and software.

i would be grateful if anyone can recommend a make and model of something i could buy new or 2nd, hand that would be suitable for me to make parts mainly from aluminium , these are mainly motorcycle parts , brackets etc.

I will also need some cam software , i use solidworks for cad , do i need to fork out for solidcam, onecnc etc or are there others that are user friendly and that will work on other bigger machines that i may buy in the future.

Basically i dont want to go betamax when all the smart people went vhs.


steve.