On Tuesday 18 February 2020 17:16:59 Robert Murphy wrote: > On 19/2/20 7:17 am, Marshland Engineering wrote: > > 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 > > I'm a basic Builder's\Civil labourer and have had no trouble getting > Linuxcnc up and running. > > Linuxcnc had really nothing to do with "Linux Skills" it's being able > to follow instructions as per any new app you would install, > regardless of OS. > > I can't get my head around Autocad, Fusion 360, is that because my > "Windows Skills" are lacking ? > > Rob > Could be, I've had a bounty on windows crap, for 30 years, it gets nuked sooner rather than later here except for one win10home on a really cheap hp, gets used as a display for a redpitaya's smith chart antenna tuner. Works nice for that. Part of my retirement cash cow. :) > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
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