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GCAM is the free GNU Computer Aided Manufacturing package. Most 3-Axis Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) mills such as the Taig and Sherline are supported in both english and metric units. GCAM has a simple interface for making bolt holes, drill holes, sketches, templates, and more. After extruding these entities one can export the corresponding G-code for the selected cutting tool(s). GCAM also imports RS274X (Gerber) and Excellon drill files for gerber to G-code pcb milling conversion used in circuit board prototyping. Once a design is complete one can export the corresponding G-Code to the appropriate CNC driver of choice such as TurboCNC for DOS or EMC for Linux. Please use the Discussion Forum to post any questions or suggestions. The GCAM source code is approximately 21k lines of C and is released under the GNU General Public License. The GCAM source code can also be downloaded from the Files page. Please post all feature requests under Bugzilla.