Cam Package Recomendation for Lathe

[CajunTaco]

I've finally started my cnc conversion on my lathe. Right now I'm planning on 2 Gecko 250 drives, and Mach 3. I draw my *.dxf's in Autocad 2004. I've been doing a bit of searching&reading but what is a good, inexpensive Cam Software to use for Turning. I've been playing with LazyCam but I can't find any tutorials on turning and I'm not doing the best job figuring it out. I looked at CamBam but I dont think they support turning.

Thanks!
-Ryan

[Perfect Circle]

BobCad is what I use at home...its pretty good for home use, and priced good if you can haggle the salesmen.....dont pay more than $600 for it.
Good Luck~!

[10bulls]

Hello Ryan,

The latest development version of CamBam (0.9.8) now has a lathe plugin included.

It is rather new, so please treat any gcode it produces with caution.
Only profiles are supported at the moment but facing and boring operations are planned.

You can download 0.9.8 and try it for free for up to 40 evaluation sessions.

Here are a couple of examples some CamBam users have produced.

Shiny

CamBam Lathe

Lathe documentation

I hope this helps and if you have any problems with it or questions please fire away.

Andy

(attachment is a delrin test piece I did by turning some delrin on my Triac mill with a tool post bolted to the bed)

[andre-dolphin]

Take a look at Dolphin PartMaster, fully featured Turning module with output to Mach3.

Special offers on at the moment.

Contact
2D & 3D CAD / CAM Software Specialist USA - FREE DOWNLOAD! for USA, Canada
or www.dolphincadcam.com for rest or the World

ATB
Andre