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Hi all. Newbie, here. I'm finally plunging into the CNC world and will start with using CamBam as I've read good things about it and the price is right. I know that it was designed to work with Mach 3. My stepper motors will be driven by a Gecko 540. Is Mach3 still the best choice for a windows OS?
You may want to look at www.kellyware.com Kcam4 is pretty neat.Works well with cambam
CamBam plus has a post processor system which can be user customised to produce g-code for a variety of CNC controllers.
Mach3, TurboCNC, EMC and Fanuc post processors are included in the standard install.
I use CamBam with EMC and they work quite well together. You can go to http://linuxcnc.org/ and download a "live CD" that you can boot your PC from and try out EMC without making any changes to your computer.
Good luck,
Mike
P.S. I almost forgot, EMC and Linux are FREE!! :-)