makes me wonder why a "cnc controller" doesn't work like a printer (yeah
sounds naive),
but 30-40 years ago it was unthinkable to print something half decent
without using ink and a hand cranked machine (stenciling).
Now you can have a color printer for next to nothing, you send the job
by hitting "print" it selects paper, ink, folds, staples, sorts (some
even bind).
same for plotters. 3D-printers you can do with a USB connection, or an
SD card. all these things have stepper motors, etc etc.
Also all those things dropped in price drastically, everyone knows, the
CNC machining industry, well, maybe they are just perpetuating their
customers depending on them (like they did with computers a decade or
two/three ago.
or is it that much more difficult to build a box for a CNC machine you
connect a USB to or connect to the network for "next to nothing" ?
:) Ron
On 1/22/20 1:06 AM, andy pugh wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 07:58, Chris Albertson <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd say to anyone re-designing LinuxCNC to keep
this picture on your wall. The new software shoud scale from a small
Harbor freight mill to a light's out factory floor.
I don't think that LinuxCNC would be a good starting point for this.
LinuxCNC is what it is. It is a machine controller that runs on a PC.
Anything else is something else, and it probably doesn't make sense to
try to make LinuxCNC in to that thing (whatever it is)
If you want a single system that runs your CAD and a web browser and
that also runs a CNC machine perfectly adequately then you have a
choice of LinuxCNC or Mach3, and both perform that task perfectly
adequately.
If you want dedicated realtime hardware running the machines with an
administrative interface on a separate machine (possibly controlling
many realtime nodes) then LinuxCNC isn't really a sensible starting
point for that.
All in my opinion of course.
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