Hi, I've recently started at a small design and manufacturing company, we have a Denford easimill 3 with a connected pc running windows 10 with UCCNC software version 1.2047.
The machine has been repaired a while ago as it had an internal hardware fault but has since been gathering dust.
It seems to be in working order. I've tried importing .iges or .step files but the software only seems, as far as I can see to only be able to cope with dxf files.
I'd be grateful if anyone can suggest where I can go from here. Is there a software upgrade that can deal with 3d files. Would we be better off going to Mach3 or similar? The company are considering selling the machine as is and buying something more up to date, but it won't be used that much. I'd like to cover all options before writing it off.
Ideally it would be great if we could get to a point where we could machine 3d forms such as a hemisphere for example. Maybe this is too big an ask, we would settle for profile and pocket machining. My background is experience with CNC machining using xyz machines and delcam powermill and edge cam, as well as manual g code input many moons ago on a bridgeport series 1 boss5.