Hypermill and Mach 3??

[single phase]

It is my opinion that HM would fit your needs perfectly. It has a powerful yet easy to use job type (free path milling) that will follow 2D or 3D lines (in addition to riding around solids). You may want to draw complex 3D geometry with one linear axis of which will be representing your rotary axis. I have done this many times before in order to get data for my rotary axis.

I hang here all the time and would be glad to help you with any programming tricks you may need. HM can do just about anything you can dream up.

Good luck with your new venture.

Cheers
Dave

[codemonkey]

Single phase,

That's an extremely kind offer, one that I'm sure we will take you up on. OpenMind seems like a very cool company, and from what hear so far the Hypermill probably will be a super fit for what we trying to accomplish. We have trialled quite a few CAM packages, and fingers crossed we hope (after a short trial) that HM will cover most of the bases that we looking for in terms of basic quality, logical design, relative ease of use and stability as well as having a reasonably substantial and current development team. (looks hopeful)...

Cheers (again),

Eric