Kevan,
Could you expound a little on how you create things in solidworks? I have mastercam, and that has a primative solid modeler in it, but it is tedious to use. I tried to use it to create the LP surface in my avatar, but it just couldn't do it. I ended up having to create it all out of individual surfaces. It took way too long.
How would you do something like and LP top in solid works? Do you have to create a bunch of geometry in 3d space, and use that like cutting tools (thats kind of what I had to do in MC.)?
Any extra info you could give would be great.
Mushy, If you are looking to CNC just 2D shapes, any cad program that will output a dxf file will get you where you need to go.