WinCNC: The last I heard they were using their own PCI motion card to do servo control. About 4 years ago I got involved with a customer and a machine OEM who was having major issues with WinCNC controlled vinyl sign cutters. WinCNC was having problems with that application at the time and the machines were not usable. In the end, I didn't get the business since the end user could not afford the development costs with any alternative software and hardware and OEM was ok with letting their customer hang in the wind. In the end I think they simply sidelined the machines and turned to lawyers to solve the financial issues. If this machine is from the same era, you might want to go back to WinCNC and see if they now have a fix.
Dave On 10/10/2013 7:22 AM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > Rindert, > > How long ago did you buy your WinCNC machine? I thought that they used some > proprietary hardware for step generation. Were you able to use it for your > LinuxCNC set up? What type of machine do you have? We have a machine > running WinCNC and use G-code on it exclusively. Our set up is on a multi > head gang router (4 independent Z axis). This is a relatively simple > configuration in WinCNC but would be very difficult to configure in LinuxCNC. > What parts of G-code wouldn't work for you in WinCNC? For what we use it > for WinCNC is probably slightly better (3D wood carving) because of LinuxCNCs > line look ahead limitations. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "RINDERT SCHUTTEN" <rind...@schuttenworks.com> > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 1:09:29 PM > Subject: [Emc-users] Perceived issues with LinuxCNC. > > So I recently got my second CNC machine for my small business. > > The first machine was a DIY kit, and (obviously) I used EMC on Ubuntu. Got > the CD, installed it on my old PC went through the stepconf wizard, and it > ran! Since then have created lots of Gcode and products. > > I said obviously, because being new at CNC, and an open source fan I did not > want to spend a lot of up front money. So I use Inkscape (with a Gcode > generator extension) for CAD and EMC for machine control. All open source > and LOVE the flow I created. Created my own coding standards, and even > though Gcode is quite arcane, it is very powerful and EMC's support for it is > EXCELLENT. I use parameters, subroutines, conditionals, repeats, etc, so > everything I make can easily be scaled, positioned, replicated, all from the > Gcode file. > > Actually, don't know about Mach 3, but the control software that came with my > new machine, WinPCNC, even though it said it supported Gcode, could not run > my Gcode. Actually their support for Gcode is minimal. For me this meant to > get EMC to work with my new machine (relatively easy and straightforward once > you have all the parameters of the controller), in order to be able to run > everything as I was used to. > > So I have NO issues with LinuxCNC. On the contrary I am quite happy with it. > Granted I do not do very complicated things, only three axis, but I love the > way it works, and LOve AXIS as well. That it only runs on Linux is NO > problem. Actually it is STABLE ,and I have not experienced a single crash. > I appreciate that! > > Rindert Schutten > Designer/Owner SchuttenWorks > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Find us on the Web at http://schuttenworks.com > Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/schuttenworks > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
