CAD/CAM Buddies

[komatias]

Leadhead
Since you mentioned SolidWorks. The next of kin to that program is OnShape. It is written buy the same people. If you have time it may be worth having a look at it. I did not migrate to that because of some of their policies. Also working Fusion as one of my clients still draws in Autocad and fusion adapts models very easily from dwg files. Fusion also have a very good native CAM module.

[Leadhead]

George - Yes I use F360 for design, programming, and postprocessing to Mach3. Only needs an occasional tweak to suit my gear.
Very successful and could not be cheaper.
Still struggling with your SS however!!!

[komatias]

Oh dear... The offer of help is still there to get it working even if it is not the smoothsteppers fault