LinuxCNC (the Enhanced Machine Control)
Mach3
Vectric Aspire
PyCAM
Mastercam
jscut
Edgecam
SolidCAM
Affinity Designer
Sketch
Inkscape
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
GIMP
Affinity Photo
Canva
LinuxCNC (the Enhanced Machine Control)Based on our record, Affinity Designer should be more popular than LinuxCNC (the Enhanced Machine Control). It has been mentiond 46 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
For a hobby machine, DIY might be the way to go. I did my sharp knee mill over several years. Ball screws from Rockford ball screws, were not cheap, but work well. Servo motors and gecko motor controllers from automationtechnologiesinc.com. Scales for feed back from dropros. Controller card from mesanet.com. All controlled with linuxcnc.org and a usb controller from vistacnc.com. Milled motor mounts for the... Source: over 1 year ago
I'm building a DIY-ish 3d printer, I know the Duet 3D boards can run spindles. https://www.machsupport.com/software/mach3/ Or Http://linuxcnc.org/ can run stepper driver boards with a spare desktop. Source: over 1 year ago
Good questions, I may be able to help with some of them but I know there are plenty of more experienced mill owners: 1. This is usually done manually or with indexing pins. If you look at the nomad flip jig you can see some techniques for physically re-aligning the part. Since you have skills in that area, a software solution could help, but I’m not aware of anything off the shelf in the hobby space. It could be... Source: almost 2 years ago
This system is so old, I would recommend looking into converting to LinuxCNC https://linuxcnc.org/. Source: over 2 years ago
If you are basically just a CNC operator they will take about the same amount of time to learn how to run them. LinuxCNC however may take a little more time configuring the system depending on features. You will definitely learn a bit more about how your machine operates configuring LinuxCNC since you have to compute a few settings based on your screw pitches and latency jitter of your PC. The calculators and... Source: over 2 years ago
There's Affinity Designer, too. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Affinity Designer (https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/) is a good choice for doing layouts, although Scribus (https://www.scribus.net/) may be all that you need depending on the complexity of your layouts. Source: about 1 year ago
Done in Serif Affinity Designer as a learning execise I guess. Source: about 1 year ago
You'll need inkscape. It's free at inkscape.org. Affinity Designer can do the same job. It's $70 at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/. Source: about 1 year ago
If you want to do very sophisticated edits, you can actually use Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer to edit PDF files (but they are obviously terrible readers). Source: about 1 year ago
Mach3 - Mach3 is very popular among the Hobby CNC community.
Sketch - Professional digital design for Mac.
Vectric Aspire - The complete software solution for CNC Routing,
Inkscape - Inkscape is a free, open source professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
PyCAM - PyCAM is a toolpath generator for 3-axis CNC machining.
Adobe Illustrator - Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor.