Hi cube3, sorry for the delay in answering we are away on a short holiday at the moment.
I will be looking at buying a machine ready built plug and play as I wouldn't know how to start building my own. A 2.5 machine around A3 size would probably suit my needs as you can use the feed through tool on Vetric for longer items. My cad skills are very limited I have played around with inkscape and exported a dfx file of a gear wheel in to Vetric and run the cutting simulation. I might take you up on the offer of a visit if I can work out how to use Dart charge!!!!

Regards Jan.......