All my machinery is manual old-school iron so I am trying to learn cad, cam and CNC in one go.
I'm building the controls on Mach3 and using sheetcam for compiling the G-code.
I tried using illustrator for the source DXF file but it's a complex program to learn, being used to x-y coordinates seems to make learning cad a bit easier, should be ok once I've learnt the basics.