On 10/10/17 20:30, Dave Cole wrote: > 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. Earlier versions of Turn did some of the job, but then the first iteration of Mach4 was being proposed as the next step. That version never reached production, so we now have the new Mach4.
> 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. I've not been advised that Mach3 licences will not continue to be available ... yet ;) but we use an older version of MAch3 anyway so don't need 'support' as such. -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
