Lest I give the wrong impression, I do agree that the current state of the project is very impressive and the people who have built it up have done a wonderful job on many fronts. Stepconf has evolved into a very solid tool and the user community is ENORMOUSLY helpful and generous. That more than anything has made me want to contribute something of value back.
I don't think of other products as competition so much as places to pick up good ideas from. To me, the bigger the EMC user community, the more interesting things will grow out of it. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Eric Keller <eekel...@psu.edu> wrote: > Well said. The support the developers give EMC is uncommon even among > commercial software. Mach gets a lot of support from vendors because > the user base is bigger. But you can have a step/dir machine up and > running under EMC very quickly. If a machine was running under Mach, > it probably would take less than an hour to get EMC running the > machine. I know I've gotten steppers spinning in less than an hour, > and that was from the state where everything was in a box and I had to > scrounge for wire. And I'm sure there are some industrial users that > are quietly using EMC without telling us. > Eric > > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am extremely and openly critical of many open source products, but I > have > > to say that EMC2 is on top as far as documentation, ease of > configuration, > > etc is concerned. To add to this excellent support, and you would know > why I > > am very happy. EMC2 is also very stable. > > > > The documentation is clear, abundant, and actually correct. > > > > The tasks that users try to accomplish with EMC2, such as retrofitting > old > > machines or making new machines, are daunting and many of us are first > > timers, myself included. This is why using EMC2 is so difficult, not > because > > EMC2 is hard to use. I had to learn everything about CNC as part of my > > project. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
