Help needed with chossing/using a CAD program for specific purpose

[Rob]

Cheers for the idea eurikain,

I have had sketch-up for a long time and did make some inroads by following tutorials, but eventually gave up trying to figure it out. However, that was a while back when I was interested in trying to learn some CAD just for the fun of it. Now I have a specific purpose for turning so as you mention plug ins, I will revisit sketchup and see what can be done.

For CAM I could try to understand LazyCam which is MACH's version or go with fusion 360 as you suggest. I will try all these solutions in the next week and maybe something will work out cheap. If not, there is the Quickturn option, it's not that expensive relative to paid-for software.