Hello fellow handy people :)

[Husky]

Hi,and wellcome. I am not one of the experts, but if you really intend to cut mainly ally or perhaps even I think you should seriously consider going for a fixed gantry moving table design. This would probably mean that you only need to use one ballscrew centrally to move the table if everything is "beefy" enough on a
500mm x 500mm working area. Anyway good luck with your design. G.

Thanks for the welcome :)

I have been looking into having 2 steppers for X and running one slave to keep it as straight as possible, I downloaded mach3 to have a look at how easy this would be and it seems simple enough (famous last words).