Originally Posted by pminmo  Free control software, EMC2 (linux) is the best of the bunch, but turbocnc and cncpro, both DOS do the job. CAMBAM is a pretty intuitive CAM program, stickfont is a good text to g-code converter. img2dxf converts image outlines to dxf files for maniplulation, SolidEdge2D is a great free 2D CAD program. |
After reading you post I decided to take a second look at cambam and it is easy. The free one only can do 2.5d though.
I think there is a plugin that will work with STL files that will do 3d in cambam free but the result pictures I saw didn't look too encouraging. But I am taking a serious look at cambam plus. At $150, that is a good deal.