Small mills was always Mach3's strong point.
Years ago I tried to do a lathe with Mach3 and that is when I went to
LinuxCNC, then called EMC2.
Mach3 just didn't work.
I thought that Mach3 license distribution was going to be cut off in
favor of Mach4 as they didn't want to keep supporting Mach3.
I just found the recent specs for Mach3 and 4 and apparently Mach4 now
supports PLC ladder logic as well! I did not know that.
That's used in most of the commercial CNC machines I have worked on.
Dave
On 10/10/2017 3:01 PM, Lester Caine wrote:
On 10/10/17 19:16, Dave Cole wrote:
I am surprised that you are still talking about Mach3. I thought that
Mach3 was suppose to be obsoleted by now
and replaced by Mach4. What happened? I've been out of the Mach3 loop
for a while.
Mach3 on my W2k ITX box runs my Taig mill happily so up until now I've
had no need to change it. I'm still supplying Mach3 on new mill setups
but I need to get a couple of lathe setups running and that is not Mach3
territory ... Mach3 with a single screen desktop is tidy on small mill
setups!
Now looking at just what is included with MachineKit but it looks like I
need a Linux box to do the next step ...
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