hello all

[TrickyCNC]

Have a look at vectric software. It's very well recommended by DIY cnc'ers and pros alike.

Vcarve pro is probably most popular and best for sign making and you can get a free demo of any of their software here
VCarve Pro

there are free programs such as inkscape and pycam that will generate v-carve profiles and g-code, if you can get your head around them :)

Like I said, you will need to use some kind of software to use your machine ... and it will be VERY frustrating if you get your machine ready to test, and no software to try it with !

Rich

[martin54]

Have a look at vectric software. It's very well recommended by DIY cnc'ers and pros alike.

Vcarve pro is probably most popular and best for sign making and you can get a free demo of any of their software here
VCarve Pro

there are free programs such as inkscape and pycam that will generate v-carve profiles and g-code, if you can get your head around them :)

Like I said, you will need to use some kind of software to use your machine ... and it will be VERY frustrating if you get your machine ready to test, and no software to try it with !

Rich

Had a quick look at the link & to be honest vcarve pro looks to be a good program but I'm not in the market to spend that sort of money at the moment, in the future then maybe but for now I probably wouldn't get the benefit from it. Inkscape is a vector based program & I already have design software that I know how to use so would try to stick to that to save extra expense & the need to sit down & learn to use new software.
Think it is really just a cam program I need to convert dxf files to g code. Lazycam comes with mach3 but artsoft don't support it anymore so comes down to what sort of tutorials I can find for it & of course how easy it is to learn in the first place lol.