The Othermill is a small, low-cost, enclosed, precise CNC machine geared primarily towards PCB milling. Othermill was renamed Bantam Tools, discontinued the Othermill, and now makes a higher end desktop CNC Machine that is primarily focused on aluminum, but can also mill PCBs - though the PCB feature is tied to a subscription model.
Both Othermills are owned by the space. Joe FitzPatrick (@Securelyfitz in Slack) is the most familiar with using them
The primary use of the Othermill is PCBs, so we will not cover non-pcb tools here.
This focuses on tools used to design a PCB, and export it to the CAM software.
The Bantam Tools software natively takes EagleCAD .brd files and can import them into a PCB. Since the Othermill software is essentially abandonded, it may be that EagleCad import could break in the future.
The software also takes Gerber files that can be output from any PCB Design tool worth using.
The software also takes SVG files, and uses them as a set of paths to trace.
The Legacy Bantam Tools Milling Machine software is the tool of choice. It can open .brd or gerber files, and figure out how to mill the PCB in the right method, and send the gcode to the CNC Machine. It runs on both windows and osx.
The Bantam Tools software is the CAM tool since it will generate toolpaths for brd/gerber files
The Bantam Tools software is also the CNC tool since it dispatches the CNC commands to the controller.
The Controller is a Smoothieboard - an open-source, off-the shelf CNC Controller.
There is very little use of 3rd party tools for CAM or CNC with the Othermill.