@Ryan_Fritts what does it matter what programs you run? Do you run them on your motion controller while you are running your CNC machine? If you do you’re more foolish than you look. Because Mach has a reputation for being sensitive to system load. It is not like Windows was ever designed for real time control after all.
Why would a LinuxCNC user have to deal with Linux? The official image is completely preconfigured for use. You literally load it onto your PC and it just runs. So where is this dealing that you mention? Are you dealing drugs and you got what conversation you’re in confused? Explain yourself!
I’m not going to take this FUD you’re trying to spread lying down. I am calling you out on all of it.
Sorry dont know linux cnc or computer systems like you. I just disagree that mach 3/4 doesnt have a place today. Most cnc hobby guys I know use it on their converted mills and lathes. No its not a fanuc controller but for a converted knee mill it just works. I have used mach 3 since college. (16 yrs now).
Fyi sounds like you are trying to turn my comments into a fight for some reason.
No guys, no fight here please.
I just wanted some sugestions and opinions.
I think we should respest everyons choice for the tools we do job with.
Unless its your employee and works for you
@Ryan_Fritts Mach3 certainly has a place today. But the question remains, where will it be in the future? I am not talking about the far flung future either.
A LinuxCNC that can be installed like any regular app because it needs no special real time kernel as it communicates via Ethernet or USB with control boards that have a command buffer and generate the timing and via Ethernet or RS485 with spindles. With support for touch screens and off-the-shelf pendants and is easy to set up by end users for any new 4 or more axis machine. That would be great.
Until then, we have MACH4 waiting for driver-support from the control board and pendant manufacturers.
@Ryan_Fritts yeah it is free. So what the hey? If you can put an image on a USB flash drive you’re in. That’s my cut off with machines anymore. They have to be able to boot off USB. Well that, and multicore. Anything less than that is not worth burning electricity with today.
I run my LinuxCNC off a PC I picked up in a thrift store for $5. Nothing but the best!
If you run into any problems, and you might, then just ask in the forum on the website, or better yet join the IRC chat channel for LinuxCNC on freenode. Then you’ll get real time help.
You’ll want to load a program called irssi on your control PC. Just open a terminal window and type in the command:
sudo aptitude install irssi
Then start up the program in the same terminal by typing irssi and issue this command at the program prompt:
/server http://chat.freenode.net
Then once it connects you:
/join #linuxcnc
and you’re in.
You might want to pick a nickname for yourself too:
/nick mynickname
Easy. Well the stock terminal font usually sucks but that’s a story for another day. That’s messing with Linux!
LinuxCNC would be great if it work on windows :)! But i have one pc in my workshop so it will be grat not only to power my cnc but also to use Spotify, Cad and acam software and here I stop with linuxCNC. I would start investigating it again when someone port it stable for arm.
@George_Novtekov LinuxCNC runs on ARM. I don’t know how stable it is. I have not heard it is unstable either though. Linux tends to run pretty good on ARM. Android seems to work well enough to me. Android is Linux on ARM. http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ARM
Gosh @Paul_Frederick , what kind of bad Mach3 experience did you have? It’s a tool, works for some, doesn’t work for others. Plus a newer version, Mach4 (original name) is in the works.
While I know the now retired original developer (good solution to the non-RT WinDoze problem, do you know how Art did that) Iuse LinuxCNC and have never used MachX. I know and respect several happy Mach3 users.
Machinekit on a BBB is a great solution, now if the capes alone didn’t cost more than a complete Intel based LinuxCNC machine…
@Kirk_Yarina in your opinion does a person need to have been shot themselves in order to properly abhor gun violence? I don’t need to be ripped off by a huckster in order to hate their scams either. Your buddy Art is a fucking crook!
Seriously, what happened to you that you have that opinion? Mach3 software or dealing with the company? Or you just don’t like the product without having used it?
@Kirk_Yarina absolutely. I am not a big fan of any for profit closed source software. Especially when it is derived from public domain government code. Which means I already paid for the development! I know what he did was legal, but it wasn’t entirely ethical. Plus how he got it to work in Windows is a crap hack. It is just junk. It really doesn’t work, it just appears to. I mean how could it? Windows has absolutely no provisions for providing real time signaling. Mach3 works enough to appear to work to users though. But that’s as far as it goes. He preyed on the ignorance of people in the absolute lowest way to make a buck. Which I find detestable. I wouldn’t let Windows run a coffee pot, so I sure wouldn’t use it to control a machine.
Now enough of your eat shit 50 billion flies can’t be wrong logic.
Wrong. While I don’t use or plan to purchase Mach3 I know the basics of how he did it and it was both non-obvious and successful. However you’ve made up your mind so let’s just let this one go.
hey, hello
i have one but ethernet and works very well with mach3, i don’t know about usb but usb its not good for cnc control but i think works fine too
