Yea the nema 23 motors will work, a B601 got a good couple of motors on it.
They are weak on the machine because of current limiting set with a voltage reference fed to the stepper driver thru a couple a resistors.
So you can put a lot more current thru those motors to get them produce so good torque.
When i first started checking out the operation and how to drive these motors i got a TB6600 driver and used an Arduino to simply send a clock signal.
The current is set with dip switches on the driver itself and found that the motors you can get of the bigger KM machines works well.
Beats paying for new motors.
I used a dualcore running LinuxCNC using a printer port. Works real well.
So you have the CAD down to create a .DXF vector output. Now just for the CAM. For 2D and 2.5D there should be free to use software out there like FlatCam.
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