We always provide a free trial for our software. Small business users are risking their income and perhaps even their business if they make a wrong choice. CNC Hobbyists aren’t risking a lot except their time. Keep all that in mind as you check out our choices for the best Free CNC Software you can find. At least check out these packages so you’ll know for yourself. Your time investment learning the software is lost if you make a bad choice and wind up switching packages.įor those reasons, we include a section of “Almost Free” software that we think might be better than the free software. Remember these packages take time to learn. And sometimes free has sneaky hidden costs. We spend so much time fighting with the free software that in the end, had we spent just a little bit on paid software, we might have come out a lot better. Other times free makes us choose vastly inferior solutions. Sometimes free is totally awesome and there are no strings attached. You’ll be spending more hours in front of your CAD and CAM Software than you will in front of CNC Machines, so choose it carefully.
You may have heard the expression, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” This may seem an odd way to get started, but I need to ask the question in all seriousness.
