Cad/cam for lathe

[Transformer]

I am in the process of converting my Grizzly G0602 to CNC and will be using Mach3. Are there any free or low cost cad/cam programs that I can design in that will then hook up to Mach3? Until I am sure I can make this work I want to keep my costs down.

 

[TomS]

A couple of free CAD programs come to mind; Draftsight and EMachineshop. I'm sure there are many others. I don't know of any free CAm programs. Not that there aren't any I just don't know.

Tom S

 

[billdeme]

Try bobcad. Its pretty good and free. You can do turning and milling with it