[Machinekit] Re: Is there any interest in a turnkey solution?

2017-12-15 Thread Lewis Cobb
Hello Alexander I am maybe not the "typical" user of Machinekit as I am retired and tend to pick at things slowly and like to learn new things. My education on all things CNC started with looking at Machinekit - then I realized I needed to know how to model things first. So I went to learn Fu

[Machinekit] Re: Is there any interest in a turnkey solution?

2017-12-15 Thread Jeff Pollard
Hi, Do you have an expected price point per unit? By turnkey, I'm guessing you mean a single application program interface running on Linux/MachineKit rather than using an editor to modify the ini, modify the hal, run 'axis', test the setup, exit axis and repeat as necessary.(?) Could

[Machinekit] Re: Is there any interest in a turnkey solution?

2017-12-15 Thread Rob M
I started off using Mach3 when I first made my foray into cnc. Sure it was easy to setup (the linuxcnc stepconf wizard makes it just as easy), but for anything more getting into the config files by hand made things really easy. My light bulb moment was when I started messing around with PyVCP a

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Is there any interest in a turnkey solution?

2017-12-16 Thread Alexander Rössler
Jeff Pollard writes: > Hi, > > Do you have an expected price point per unit? > > By turnkey, I'm guessing you mean a single application program interface > running on Linux/MachineKit rather than using an editor to modify the ini, > modify the hal, run 'axis', test the setup, exit axis and

Re: [Machinekit] Re: Is there any interest in a turnkey solution?

2017-12-16 Thread Alexander Rössler
Hello Lewis, Lewis Cobb writes: > Hello Alexander > > I am maybe not the "typical" user of Machinekit as I am retired and tend to > pick at things slowly and like to learn new things. My education on all > things CNC started with looking at Machinekit - then I realized I needed to > know how