well I am trying to give BobCad a go but the demo isn't installing.

however, I really don't want to over complicate things by combining 2D and 3D. I am happy to sacrifice time as I have plenty of it. at least I am not trying to do it manually 110 times as that would kill me.

so I am trialling feature CAD at the moment whilst I am trying to resolve BobCAD issues. The idea is to learn CAD and CAM at the moment whilst I build my CNC machine.

sofar I haven't generated any code yet so I am still keen to know if it will. if any one whats to give it a go to actually produce one that would be awesome to see.

thank you for the information so far, lots of food for thought.

as I need to do this in two stages, what would be a good method to set this 2 stage system up.

many thanks

becky