I use Alibre Atom 3D CAD package which I find excellent and is a very
cheap one time purchase. There is a CAM package too but it’s more
expensive.
I used to use Fusion 360 but they stopped my free licence when they
looked at my website and found I did some ‘job shopping’ _regardless of
turn over_. I wasn’t prepared to pay the $50 per month so I lost all my
Fusion drawings. Be careful!!!
I am a newbie to CNC machining but like Andy and the others say it’s
best and quite easy to learn G-Code and routines for turning especially
once you have a few templates you can just modify.
Andy’s macro addon to LCNC axis is very good too.
Pete
On 16 Sep 2020, at 11:44, N <nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I have been using freecad for designing parts, and then milling them on
a sherline mill, getting the hang of that a little bit.
I have a lathe too, that works with CNC linux, but noticed heard,
that you can't really make parts, or g-codes, with it for a lathe.
Also used Freecad a little bit. Suspect rotating a sketch is a good or
very good method to draw parts for a lathe. Do know anything about how
CAM, the path workbench will work a lathe but should be simple to try.
As someone pointed out Fusion 360 might be better but CAD software
usually also tend to be rather expensive.
Regards Nicklas Karlsson
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