Hey you know you are a real treasure on this formum my friend you give willingly to the new folks like me all the time I thank you and by the looks of it will keep doing so after some of my stupid questions

Thanks I will have a look at that .

Its the being new and so many routes you can take lol there isa lot to learn here and you find a little somthing every day.

Can we have some before and after Pics please Angel.
I really need some pics to gloat over with friends in the pub thay are all green at the moment hehe

A chap has ofered me his copys of Solidworks 10 and solid CAM 8

I am looking to start up a small set up in my garage and don't want to use illegal stuff.

So my question is will they work together and is it ok for him to sell it to me?

All I know is that it is on an xp pc wih mach 3 running on it. Is there any questions I need to ask regaurding this ? I am at college one night a week learning cnc to a level 2 city&guilds we cover milling and lathe work. The only thing I am not sure about is that we use alphacam at college so i wil...

Hello all yes you read the title right. A vary nice man is selling me a starturn lathe that is being converted to use mach 3. I have no machine experiance so can anyone point me to some nice reading material please? or even pass on some points of wisdom to me please. To make things more interesting ...