On 28/08/16 07:35, Marcus Bowman wrote: > One interesting, but not unexpected, result from the survey is what is > happening to Mach3, and not happening to Mach4. I run Mach3 as well as > LinuxCNC, but it has been stuck in a time warp for a long time now, and I > suspect it will gradually flop to a soft landing as XP machines die. Mach 4 > is not showing the same signs of mass adoption, perhaps because of the price. > That tells us something about the market, too.
I'm running the same version of Mach3 that I installed on W2k and it does the job of running the mill perfectly for me ... and my customers. I keep saying I need to retry running LinuxCNC, but currently all the spare time is taken up with other jobs. Such as keeping my main business clients working on W10 which has yet to become stable enough to rely on. All those sites ran XP for years without a single problem! I've 2 CNC lathes sitting in storage waiting for computers to go with them. Actually 3 but the third still needs the electronics rebuilding. The hold-up is that Mach3 lathe will do some jobs but I'm not as confident it will be as productive as the mills are. ELS is a possible half way house, but I think these machines deserve some hardware that will use the encoders on their spindles, and for that I think the coprocessor approach is the best way forward, but the LinuxCNC options still need to become a little more mature? Anybody working on an interface to PokeysCNC or better still an alternative which we can develop the code for ourselves? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
