jprince,
This is a pre-purchase decision. With all due respect, do not waste my time with, stop what you are doing and do it my way, class of comments.
I have no intention of asking you to do something my / our / or any other way. I requested information on intent of use so that we could more appropriately address
any questions you may have and help in a polite, understanding, friendly, manner. That's just how the nice folks are in here.
All I want of MACH 3 is to visualize the cutting if possible, output Gcode that I can load into my controller and translate VB scripts that I may write.
There are manny wizards which provide gcode for common maching task and those that get more complex are somewhat handled by LazyCam or LazyTurn.
Mach can be used to visualize the pathing as it is run but not as well as some more elaborate programs dedicated to doing just that. I know nothing of your controller and as such
what it's specific dialect of gcode it will run satisfactorly.
If you plan on purchasing Mach, the community is more than happy to help you whenever we can. I you just plan on running mach in a unlicensed / free / demo mode and reap some benefits,
than by all means feel free to try it out for as long as you wish to see what that will provide.
Take care,
RICH