For Carbide Create. It’s pretty surprising how capable it is despite its simplicity if one just adapts to working as it needs for one to work:
If there’s some specific task which you aren’t succeeding with, please let us know here, or at support@carbide3d.com and we’ll gladly create a customized tutorial for you.
Also, remember that you can always draw things in a CAD program and import as a DXF, or in a vector drawing program (the free option is Inkscape: https://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Inkscape ) and import an SVG — at that point, the only limit to Carbide Create is your patience in assigning toolpaths. If that becomes too tedious, my suggestion would be to switch to 3D CAD and use a 3D CAM tool such as MeshCAM.
To look into the position information problem:
- first please try standard computer troubleshooting options: reboot, check for updates, shutdown, restart — if that doesn’t help, unload and reload the software
- open up Carbide Motion, open up MDI, open up the Log window and set it aside, go back to the main window, open up Job and then begin interacting as before — if you get the problem again, please make a screen capture which includes the Log window and the Job window — hopefully that will let us puzzle out what is happening.
I will note three further things:
- we do have a native Spanish speaker who can help you out personally at support@carbide3d.com in case that would be more comfortable (your English is way better than my one year and one week of high school French — but sometimes for technical things such as this, more direct is better)
- there should be an update to Carbide Motion in the very near future, CM4 looks to have a lot work done on it to address such problems
- if you wish, you could try one of the opensource comm / control programs such as bCNC or Universal G-code Sender