Advice needed for new user re 3020 CNC Router
Hi
We are a self funded, all volunteer Historical Village & Museum in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia. We occasionally have a need to have plastic signs made for our outside displays.
A recent donation of $1000 has prompted us to consider buying a machine to do this and also to create name badges in plastic.
We would be only carving script, probably using a V cutter and shallow depth of cut.
With this money in mind we have been looking at the 3020 CNC router advertised on the Internet. ($698 + $127 P&P)
We appreciate it is not going to be a heavy duty machine and would purchase a better cutter for use with the plastic.
Has anyone any experience with this machine?
It comes with Mach3 software but I am told that we also need to purchase Cut2D to use with the machine.
Does the Mach3 software control the machine while the Cut2D is used for designing the sign and sending the instructions to Mach3?
Any help or comments most appreciated.
Regards
Brian Taylor