I would say the migration has started. I went to the UK Midlands Model Engineer Show on Friday. instead of a few users showing Mach there was only one and he was dual booting to linuxcnc to show threading. Another had a small gantry with linuxcnc
An improvement on previous years. Dave Caroline On 19/10/2014, Bruce Layne <linux...@thinkingdevices.com> wrote: > I'm always trying to nudge my friends and YouTube garage machining > buddies to adopt LinuxCNC. It's good natured, but I am serious. I > notice reluctance on their part, but I try to reassure them by telling > them, at this point, I really don't see how Mach could be any easier to > install and configure. Other than sending a free technician to do it > for you, it's about as easy as it gets. But there still seems to be > some hesitation. They seem to regard me as the siren of Greek > mythology, trying to entice their ship onto the rocks. > > Last week, a friend's hard drive crashed on his mill and he spent most > of the week getting it running again, and most of that of course was > Windows and Mach. I told him that I routinely backup the small LinuxCNC > folder by dragging it to a USB thumb drive. That contains all of my > machine configuration files and all of my G code. If my hard drive > died, I'd plug in a new one, pop in the Ubuntu/LinuxCNC thumb drive and > reinstall everything in a few minutes, then drag the old LinuxCNC folder > to the new hard drive and Bob's your uncle. I'm making chips. Tell me > again how Linux is too geeky complicated and Mach and Windows is so easy? > > There are plenty of people who genuinely like Mach and do a lot of free > advertising for them, including hardware manufacturers who say things > like, "No matter what you start with, you'll end up using Mach." But > for each of these Mach cheerleaders, there seem to be a person on the > serious side of hobby machining, typically people who started with CNC > as a hobby who are now doing KickStarter manufacturing, opening small > town machine shops, etc., and they started with Mach but seem unhappy > with it. They're the Mach captives. They use Mach, including the more > advanced features, but they make disparaging comments. I watch their > YouTube videos and they say, "Well, I went back out to the shop and Mach > had crashed again. Big surprise." But these captives seem to be > suffering from the CNC version of Stockholm Syndrome. They're > sympathizing with their captors. When I suggest how easy it'd be to > swap hard drives and install LinuxCNC and use the same hardware, (and > I've even volunteered to do it for them) and if they didn't like it they > could put the old hard drive back in and not miss a thing, they mumble a > bit and change the subject. Typically, their little CNC machine shipped > with Mach and they're afraid to wander off the reservation. > > Here's a partial summary of the issue of Digital Machinist that Jack > mentioned: > > http://www.digitalmachinist.net/comingsoon/contents/view > > There's an article in there (that I haven't read) about using LED ring > lights for spindle mounted workpiece lighting. I bought a very nice > Aluminator 2.0 LED ring light on eBay on August 30th that's made to > magnetically attach to the spindle. It's very nice and well worth the > US$125 on my milling machine. My old eyes need all the light I can get. > > www.ebay.com/itm/400759473641 > > On October 7th, I bought an 80mm Angel Eyes LED ring light on eBay for > US$11 that's marketed as accent lighting to surround an automotive > headlight. It requires half an amp at 12 volts and it will require a > bit of redneck engineering (I'm thinking 3M VHB double sided foam tape, > or I may machine a PVC housing) to attach to the 80mm water cooled > spindle motor on my CNC router. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/281435821348 > > > > > > On 10/19/2014 09:00 AM, Dave Cole wrote: >> Whoa....That's a body blow to the Mach3 camp. >> >> The article they wanted: Migrating from Mach3 to Mach4 :-) >> >> The article they got: Migrating from Mach3 to LinuxCNC... :-( >> >> Dave >> >> On 10/18/2014 8:52 PM, Jack Coats wrote: >>> There is an article in Digital Machinist, Vol 9 No 3, Fall 2014 with the >>> title >>> "Migrating from Mach3 to LinuxCNC" by Thomas Allsup (page 24). >>> >>> In case someone wants to check it out. I haven't read it yet. >>> >>> Just thought someone might be interested. >>> >>>> <> ... Jack >>> "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... 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