Yes it is used/owned by a business (my employer). (Yes I get to "play" with Linuxcnc as part of my day-job.) We also have 3 other cnc routers here that I converted to running Linuxcnc. I would consider the machine's we have running Linuxcnc to be "light duty" and they are mainly used for carving and engraving, and they can do that much faster than our large heavy duty routers that we use for milling out parts. The big heavy machines, are mostly all Fanuc controlled.
The CAD/CAM software I use is called Enroute. It's a package geared more toward the woodworking/sign making industries. I also use FreeCAD a little to do some things that Enroute can't.
I would love to see a video of the 8 spindles moving about.
If that counts, to me the "odd machine" is my small gear hobber. After buying a 2nd hand hob and trying to use it I fell into the rabbit hole.
There should be some effort to make it more userfriendly. I still have to change some parameters in the .hal to get it to work, based on the gear at hand.
Andy Pugh provided the necessary help to get it up and running.
