Hello!
Will there also be turning (lathe) machining possible in the future? I haven’t seen that option in MillMage and there aren’t any affordable options out there in the market that i could find.
And will there be a Mach3 g-code flavor available as well (or is there but im not seeing it)?
Thank you.
I have no idea what the Lightburn people are up to this week, but I suspect the chances are slim for a LatheMage product. Or maybe not…
I suspect the market for home and garage shop lathes is much smaller than the table-top mills. You can’t make signs or coasters on the lathe. The range of craft fair products you can create on it is very limited, and the starter machine is typically in the $600+ range.
Personally, if there was a LatheMage, I might start shopping. 
I can’t answer the Mach 3 question.
Mach3 is not controllable. But can accept gcode from millmage. See mote at the end of this post in the mach3 category about post:
LatheMage is a great name.
No we will not have lathe CAM in MillMage. It is 2.5D Router/Mill focused.
I feel your pain on an affordable lathe CAM. Fusion is about the closest it gets.
For sure!
The lathe is a lot more like the laser, but without any Zaxis operation. I just checked for cheap CNC lathe, hit the $10k price range. Maybe Sainsmart can give us one for $300?
Hey guys…I found an “inexpensive” version of a lathe but it, the lathe, is on a small scale.
They have metal and wood use cases on their hand/CNC lathes.
Seth
P.S. They come in mm and inches (standard) lead screws so you can handle XZ maneuvering.
See here: https://www.sherline.com/
Also, if you wanted to retrofit the machine with your own controller, it would work, i.e. as the sherline people have CNC or CNC ready where you can add your own motors, controllers, and/or limit switches. I know MM may never handle lathes but I figure I would chime in here.
Something like the Acorn CNC goes well with this machine out-of-the-box, i.e. as sherline (I think) uses their hardware from Centroid for producing the controller.
But, one could purchase, like stated previously, their own controller for building around sherline’s miniature lathes or mills. It is for precise, small and incremental works. Anyway, I hope everyone is well in this day and time. Off to read more on subject matter.
Oops…
I read incorrectly...
The lathe source I found that is really inexpensive is EZ-TURN Express. I think with a version of Alibre Atom3D, one can get it for about $500.00.
I browsed the Sherline website and could not find a lathe with motors on the X and Y axes. They use “CNC” a lot, but do not appear to have one for just the lathe.
This is software and these guys I know real well (I was a software trainer). The EZCAM family started at Bridgeport machines: EZ-Mill, EZ-Turn, and EZ-EDM. The new owners skip over the design phase in their website videos. Those that use Lightburn and MillMage know that is where the real magic happens.
@MikeyH ,
Hey. They got 'em. I can check and get the link if necessary. I think their website was giving them concerns a while back. I can check again. Just whistle and I will attend.
Right about EZ-TURN starting at bridgeport. I read that much so far but not everything. Some data is available on their website.
Anyway, it is an all around okay source code with tools for lathe or mill.
Seth
Little known but probably useless fact: The original programmer for EZCAM was the VP of Engineering at Bridgeport. He wrote the entire thing himself. He said he wanted something easy that HE could use, and it blossomed. I got to meet him at a training session for the SX series of mills when I was the factory. At that time, it was RS-232 and DB-9’s instead of USB. No such thing as “lost connection” in those days.