Well. if you need a machine as big as an SVM-I and intend to weld one up, then you better start learning to do cad and stress analysis, ',cos in that size it will need both of them.

I don't think many people who want to go a fabrication build fully realise the amount of steel in the build, and that translates to a full time professional workshop equipped with more than just a hobby welder.........if you don't have a really flat level and true surface to build on you ain't gonna get a mill.

As this thread is specifically about the SVM-0 I'd better not comment any further on alternative builds.
Ian. .