My CAD / CAM research

Ezilathe
Windows
Lathe CAM (DXF > GCode) + Simulation
Forum: www.cnczone.com/forums/uncategorised-cam...8-cnc-cam-forum.html
download: www.cnczone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=21
manual: www.cnczone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=22
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/Enginebuilder100/videos
FREE

LightBurn
Windows / MacOS / Linux
Laser CAM (actually very good at vectorising images and export to DXF too for secondary use i.e. sheetcam)
lightburnsoftware.com/
30 day full feature Trial
$40 (includes 12m of updates, but licenced perpetually)
$30 to extend for next 12m of updates

Fusion360 is now limited to 10 editable documents for hobby users. Time to figure out how to export my f3d designs to another package. Life just can't be that simple. :dry:

persei8 wrote: Fusion360 is now limited to 10 editable documents for hobby users. Time to figure out how to export my f3d designs to another package. Life just can't be that simple. :dry:

could see that change coming.... onshape all over again.....

I'm slowly trying to learn freecad (I come from a 20year autocad day job background)

In Autodesk's words, the 10 editable documents is meant to add 'a little bit of friction', but it shouldn't stop you doing anything (just enable/disable designs as necessary). That said, yup...hard to forgive intentional annoyance.

Mud wrote: In Autodesk's words, the 10 editable documents is meant to add 'a little bit of friction', but it shouldn't stop you doing anything (just enable/disable designs as necessary). That said, yup...hard to forgive intentional annoyance.

thin edge of the wedge principle.... sure there will be another change in the next 6-12m

hence why I decided to break with fusion, and start to use freecad...

sure it's better than freecad.... but as a hobbyist earning nothing from my hobby I can't justify the ongoing cost