I’ve bought nice ones and super cheap Chinese ones off aliexpress like HUHAO. Single flute router bits – again because of the above reasons, speeds and feeds says you can cut way faster with a single flute bit. A mister is by no means essential but will allow you to push the machine quite a bit further for a pretty low price. If you have shop air setup this is a really easy add, if you need to buy a compressor this can be a little more of a project / cost.

Mister – Because routers are typically lower torque higher RPM spindles that are limited by stiffness of the carriage and the ability to get the chips out of tool path a mister can make a huge difference in the speed you can cut at without gumming up the bit. Swyft is just a reseller / middleman for this stuff. They’re way cheaper and are basically the same products. Just buy the accessories off Amazon instead of from Swyft. There’s also a pretty large support community since it is basically the same as Fusion CAM and the free HSMExpress. It isn’t terribly slower than SW CAM if you always copy operations from a master file / a previously CAM’ed part. We have had a couple issues where the toolpath generation gets a bit confused in really tight spaces or it struggles with some odd assemblies, but it has been pretty good besides that. If you really really want to get it to work, check out the postprocessor I posted in this thread SOLIDWORKS CAM/CAMWorks with Mach 3. It is basically impossible to do a “run from here” since it completely forgets where the actual work origin is.

For some reason, the way SW CAM patterns the G-Code to make the programs smaller if you have multiple identical parts really confuses Mach3. Then, even with it working, it was terrible.

It took a lot of work to download old, incompatible software to create a custom postprocessor file that actually worked with Mach 3 (the built in Mach 3 post doesn’t work).

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