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I have a bit of experience working with several other motor drivers over the last few years, but I have not come across this before. Its a small tb6600 based unit 4.5A 42v...

On the dipswitch...

I used sheetcam for a bit and really liked it for its simplicity. At that time was was exporting dxfs from adobe illustrator and doing some basic 2.5D parts. It has some nice features and is easy to...

You misinterpreted my point. Of course purchasing a home is cheaper. What i was trying to say is that you had to get a mortgage because you couldnt afford to buy your home outright on the spot. ...

So you bought your home but paid a mortgage for probably 15-30 yrs. During which time you probably paid nearly twice your homes value with interest. Why didnt you just pay cash for your home and...

What are you using now thats so awesome. You mentioned its old but gets the job done. How old? How much?

Fusion might not be the best but for the money its a compromise most would happily make....

Where do you live? In a van? You dont rent maybe, but do you have a mortgage? Maybe you buy used cars and thats fine and responsible...Just trying to make a point, most cant afford big cash out of...

When it comes to CAD / CAM users out there, it's a huge pie. There are more and more small guys, DIY,hobby,router, 3D print and design that this is really going to appeal to. Tons of smaller places...

I looked at all 3 and ended up with the Tormach 1100. I have had it about 2 months. Availabilty was an issue with the Charter machine when i called they didnt have any units available for 6-8 weeks...

Are you planning on having the v bearing ride between two pieces of the steel flat stock? Each has a 45deg chamfer on one side so in the middle you get a 90 groove? Is that correct?

If so you...

^me too. My local place has tons of remnants or 'drops' as they call them, all pretty well organized too. I always pick through there first. Its about half the cost of their off the shelf 3, 6, and...

Quite a lot of info in this thread. Most of the discussion so far certainly a bit over my head and probably others too but interesting to read.

That article is misleading in a lot of ways and...

I just bought a second tormach 5" for my 1100 to set up side by side. I have several longer pieces I need to work on and need more support. For the money they seem to be a great value.

A few recommendations from someone who built a diy from 100% free detailed plans (joes 2006) router a few yrs back. As suggested, get a working finished model. People will have a billion times more...

I dont have AC, but does it give you the option to import or export tools to a file? If so add a few in manually save them out and view the file in a good text editor, notepad ++ or something. Its...

Hello, today I was running a few parts on my Tormach 1100 with path pilot and wanted to skip a few operations in my g code. I found where I wanted to start from and kept getting this error when...

I use it mainly to cut jigs and templates out of plywood and mdf board for welding frames etc. It works well to keep everything straight and not warping or pulling while working on it. I often mill...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Good points and helps reinforce how I felt too. I bought the 1100 yesterday with a few extra goodies. Ships next week!

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Hello Everyone! Here's my situation.

I'm a fairly well accomplished fabricator and programmer and have been designing and building in-house machines for our specialty print business for the last...

Those dimensions are thousands of inches!! What program are you making your dxf files in? I know sometimes if you have things such as guide line etc in your file they will trail off to the max size...

Thanks guys - Yeah I've been fooling around with Mach 3 and Lazy cam, It's what I mainly use for my wood router...I started playing around with the lazycam "plasma" but I can't find any documentation...

I'm in the process of building a small light duty hobby CNC laser diode machine and am looking for some good (basic) software to use. Any free stuff out there anyone knows about?

THX!!! :cheers:

As far as the software goes I was planning on trying to use the open source software available. Also If I can talk my brother into it, he has Mach and some other CAD/CAM on his machine. Any...

Hello! That's right, I'm a newbie. First post here. I'm looking for some advice in which direction I should head. I'm new to the cnc world but have some experience with stepper drives and am...