Free Software ?

[WollyUK]

If by "Running" you mean control software then there's EMC for unix machines which I believe is free. . . . Or Mach3 lets you run upto 500 lines of G-code without a license. If your savy with the G-code and split the job up into parts then 500 lines can get you a fair way.!

Thanks for that.

We have only got to do a small job with it. Even though i'm not too sure if 500 lines is alot or not. But i shall find out.

Regards.

[russell]

If 500 lines is not enough you will find EMC here: http://www.linuxcnc.org/ It is free and open source.

You do not need a "Unix machine" to run it. It can be downloaded and burned onto a cd to make a "live disk". It comes complete with the Ubuntu operating system (a flavour of Linux) and can be installed to dual boot alongside Windows on a normal PC. One caveat; it doesn't like NVIDEA graphics cards.:sad:

Russell.