As a Tormach owner for a number of years: My machine came with Mach3 installed. Perhaps 3 years ago all owners were emailed an upgrade notice suggesting that PathPilot was great and that an upgrade required the purchase of a Mesa 5i25 card + an install DVD costing a total of a little more than $100. It is not official but a Mesa 7i92 now also works with no PP user modifications required.
There have been no upgrades/bug fixes to Mach3 since the initial release of PP although there have been numerous upgrades to PP. There is no pressure to change to PP if one is happy with Mach3. That said, it has been made clear that there will be no further upgrades to Mach3. In addition, newer Tormach machines such as PCNC440, the new servo based PCNC770MX and PCNC1100MX and RapidTurn are not supported in Mach3. Please feel free to ask questions if the above is unclear. I have been a PP user since their beta. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Dammeyer [mailto:jo...@autoartisans.com] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2019 5:37 PM > To: 'Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)' > Subject: [Emc-users] LinuxCNC and Tormach > > Got a Design World mailing today with an advertisement for Tormach Path > Pilot titled the brains behind CNC. And a link to this video. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puZednzlsY0 > > In the comments section an answer to a request about replacing MACH3 with > Path Pilot was that if you own a Tormach yes but if not, then no. > > Since Tormach makes extensive use of LinuxCNC to sell their product, does > that not mean that they are required to release their Path Pilot? > > John > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
