Denford Microrouter V4

**magicniner** · 10-06-2016

Originally Posted by andy_con

I use cambam

It doesn't look like CamBam does V-Carve style tool paths :-(

**andy_con** · 10-06-2016

Originally Posted by magicniner

It doesn't look like CamBam does V-Carve style tool paths :-(

no word of a lie my 40 trial uses of cambam ended today and I was going to purchase it. maybe there is a better option out there I could spend my money on?

**magicniner** · 10-06-2016

Originally Posted by andy_con

no word of a lie my 40 trial uses of cambam ended today and I was going to purchase it. maybe there is a better option out there I could spend my money on?

Cambam gets rave reviews and is reasonably priced, I'm not sure you'll get anything with V-Carve toolpaths for anything like the price.

**Neale** · 10-06-2016

I use Vectric VCarve which does a good job of v-carve toolpaths, and is aimed at woodworkers rather than engineers. It ain't cheap, though. Vectric offer a free trial copy, although as far as I remember it will give a good simulation onscreen of the finished work but will not actually produce gcode. You need the full paid-up version to do that. Certainly at the time I was looking, 2-3 years or so ago, I couldn't find anything else that did such a good job. For the kinds of things you seem to make, VCarve would do pretty well, but as I say, you do have to pay for it. I would be interested to hear if anyone knows of an equally good or better v-carving CAM package that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.