Thank you all for the advice. I went and looked at the website for the Taig. They are a lot cheaper price for sure. It would be nice to have several mills working at the same time.If I end up having to replace what I have then that could be an option. I have one of the older Mini mills’ that has been in the class room since 1992. I can not complain about the mill because it has worked well. The problem I have is that it needs to be updated to run on a Windows XP machine (not Dos or win 3.x). They said they would rebuild and update the machine for $1200. The students do not enjoy writing code but do enjoy making chips. That is why I was thinking that Mastercam Would let them carve their name and make an island fairly quickly. Once I have them hooked then I can teach them more about the nuts and bolts. I figured since the Local votech had Mastercam that I would try and mimic their program. From what it looks like (great example stepper monkey) that it should work.
Next question. Is there an easy to use and real cheap cad cam program that I can load on several computers for thestudents to use? Will LAzycam work like a cad cam program?  |