[routalot]

Freecad meets the cost criterion,but maybe not the easy part.Have you tried it?If not,watch a couple of youtube videos first to get some idea of what you need to do.

[richard-at-home]

Freecad meets the cost criterion,but maybe not the easy part.Have you tried it?If not,watch a couple of youtube videos first to get some idea of what you need to do.

Yes, I just downloaded it last night! Seems to do just about everything including having Path Workbench to do the post processing.

Little bit of a learning curve, but I guess it's good to excercise the grey matter every so often.

Funny how you get so used to the speed and ease of using sketchup and going to another CAD package seems so hard.

[routalot]

Yes, I just downloaded it last night! Seems to do just about everything including having Path Workbench to do the post processing.

Little bit of a learning curve, but I guess it's good to excercise the grey matter every so often.

Funny how you get so used to the speed and ease of using sketchup and going to another CAD package seems so hard.

If you are more comfortable with other packages to create the object to be produced,it is possible to import a range of file formats and then to use the Path workbench.I agree that it isn't the most intuitive software package out there,but it is hugely capable and getting better by the week.The youtube videos by sliptonic are a great resource for understanding the essentials and a bit more besides.There are others and a bit of searching will probably lead you to them.