If their company is anything like most, the person who wrote the add you were quoting, had nothing to do with putting together the "controller package" (and probably knows little about it) and through miscommunications, and creative license, some half truths, crept in. I am sure the errors in the add were completely unintentional. And I would hope that they would be corrected once they are brought to the attention of someone with the authority to fix them.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Layne" <linux...@thinkingdevices.com> To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:44:15 AM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] PathPilot (what hardware?) The way the upgrades were described, the hardware sounded very MESA-ish, so I wasn't surprised to see that it was. However, Tormach does seem to be interested in conveying the impression that the software and hardware were created by Tormach. http://www.tormach.com/blog/pathpilot-beta-testing Our own development work began in earnest 4 years ago. During that time, we’ve made substantial improvements to the underlying source code to make PathPilot a viable commercial product. These include a revamped trajectory planner, improvements to the G-Code interpreter, a new operator interface, onboard conversational programming, and a host of other enhancements. PathPilot, however, is not just software. It is also new dedicated hardware “inside the box” designed specifically for motion control, along with complete documentation, and end-user support. Unlike our previous generation controller, PathPilot is a fully integrated and purpose-designed CNC motion control platform for Tormach products. They do admit that LinuxCNC is the underlying software, but claim they made substantial improvements, when they apparently paid for open source code to be developed by someone else. That's possibly splitting hairs, but I'm not sure if I'm the one splitting hairs, or the Tormach marketing department. In the second paragraph quoted above, they imply that they "developed new dedicated hardware" that is "a fully integrated and purpose-designed CNC motion control platform for Tormach products." Given the availability of high quality and low cost off-the-shelf hardware, they'd be crazy to develop their own. I suspect their contribution is the "complete documentation, and end-user support." Tormach users will be very well served by LinuxCNC software and MESA Electronics hardware, but I think it's interesting that Tormach seems to feel the need to imply that they did the development. They're a fairly small company and they do a lot of good development, but they must feel that they can't allow a market impression that they are integrators, putting together tools that others provide. Does anyone know if they created their nice looking graphical front end, or did they subcontract that as well? It's fine by me either way, but I am curious. Maybe Brian Williams took a job as the marketing director at Tormach. If they blog about their helicopter being shot down behind enemy lines, and using a PCNC 770 to manufacture the parts they needed to repair the helicopter, I'm calling BS. :-) On 02/18/2015 05:50 AM, Andrew wrote: > 2015-02-18 12:34 GMT+02:00 Belli Button <be...@iafrica.com>: > >> I'm more curious about the hardware, do you think they are using 5i25 from >> Mesa or is it something of their own? >> >> It's MESA. > Look at http://www.tormach.com/document_direct_download.html?doc_id=893 , > Figure 6 > > -- > Andrew > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
