dkj4linux
Elite member
Hai-Lee,
I, too, am old and easily confused and/or put off by some of these outfits. But I will HEARTILY RECOMMEND the Estlcam software that has been recommended to you. Christian Knull, author of Estlcam, looks in on these forums occasionally and has been extremely helpful to us, especially MPCNC users... actually adding the MPCNC/Marlin "flavor" gcode into Estlcam and offering up timely advice/explanation to those having issues with it. As far as licensing, the software can be used indefinitely, with full functionality... but will impose an increasingly long "wait" (time delay) that will eventually, gently, encourage you to spend the $60 for a license. It is good, readily usable, software and I, for one, am deeply appreciative of Christian's efforts and happily paid for the license... long before the imposed wait was a bother to me. The MPCNC website also has some pretty straight-forward "how-to" pages for using Estlcam to generate our gcode... and bunches of us used this page to get started off on the right foot.
-- David
I, too, am old and easily confused and/or put off by some of these outfits. But I will HEARTILY RECOMMEND the Estlcam software that has been recommended to you. Christian Knull, author of Estlcam, looks in on these forums occasionally and has been extremely helpful to us, especially MPCNC users... actually adding the MPCNC/Marlin "flavor" gcode into Estlcam and offering up timely advice/explanation to those having issues with it. As far as licensing, the software can be used indefinitely, with full functionality... but will impose an increasingly long "wait" (time delay) that will eventually, gently, encourage you to spend the $60 for a license. It is good, readily usable, software and I, for one, am deeply appreciative of Christian's efforts and happily paid for the license... long before the imposed wait was a bother to me. The MPCNC website also has some pretty straight-forward "how-to" pages for using Estlcam to generate our gcode... and bunches of us used this page to get started off on the right foot.
-- David
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