[free_matrex2010]

hi finally i finish my cnc home made and it`s perfect now i want to make and sell some doors and wooden stuff frist i want to buy license for mastercam x5 art and mach3 but suddenly i found that it`s cost is so high for me as iam from egypt and i am engineering student . so any one here know any free cam software??

[awerby]

Well, there's Freemill from Mecsoft: MecSoft FreeMILL: 3D Milling package That should get you started, anyway. MasterCAM has a lot more features, but it's quite expensive even here in the USA.

You mention Mach3 - that's not a CAM program, but it will run your CNC machine as it executes programs written by Freemill. If you're looking for a free alternative, you might try EMC (now called LinuxCNC LinuxCNC.org ).

Andrew Werby
ComputerSculpture.com — Home Page for Discount Hardware & Software

[fishface]

Free stuff:
LinuxCNC - brilliant
QCad
HeeksCad

Things with 30 day full function demos:
Varicad
MeshCam