On 10/22/2014 12:38 PM, Dave Cole wrote: > > LinuxCNC is constantly being developed and redeveloped. Do you see any > derivation of Mach3/4 being used on 3D printers. No.
To be fair, some 3D printers *DO* run Mach. AFAIK, it's not that many, and mostly the "retrofit" sort of printer where someone attaches an extruder to the business end of an existing mill (known as a "Rep-Strap" by the 3D printer folks), but they are out there, and it's not really any more or less hassle to use Mach than LinuxCNC (both support "normal" gcode, are confused by the RepRap flavor gcode, need some sort of file translation to get things working, and are not without "sharp edges"). I think LinuxCNC is overall a better fit than Mach for the Maker / Hacker crowd because: * It's open source (this is a *BIG* deal with most makers) * Most of the maker folks have experience with Linux, or at least aren't scared of it * LinuxCNC is far more powerful and configurable than Mach or the other machine control options (think Linux is hard? Try writing real-time microcontroller firmware for an AVR based Arduino that's heavily CPU bound!). I'm working on "beating the drum" (with the last point especially), but it's hard to convince folks of what they're missing (halscope, run time editable configurations, etc) when they are used to having to compile firmware to do something like change the axis gain. <sigh> -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected]
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