Les - Valuable comments, however, some facts. I'm and BSc electrical engineer and worked as an industrial control engineer with PLC, servos etc for a number of years.
I have 2 complete PC with Mesa servo drives, wiring, machines retrofitted etc. I been following LinuxCNC for a long time, even years before when it was EMC2. I have tried 4+ times over the years to get it all to work. I have yet to get a one system up and running !!!!!! I do understand that my Linux is limited and that is probably the biggest factor. I can buy stuff off the shelf from China and get it working, even Mach3 is easy. The only reason I went LinuxCNC is that I can retain the handwheels and use servo drives. I am going to make space in my calender this year to try again as I can see that having it running would be a nice compliment to my SouthWestern Indistries mill. Thread milling would be great. PS I forgot, spent 15 years as a commercial programmer. Cheers Wallace _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
