The machine "works", as in they've made a half dozen ugly test cuts. But they have not figured out how to make the THC work right and some other finer points of perfection still need fixing. Things like squaring the gantry are currently done by grabbing the bridge and pulling it forward against the end stops before turning on the drives.
Todd Zuercher P. Graham Dunn Inc. 630 Henry Street Dalton, Ohio 44618 Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 -----Original Message----- From: Dave Cole <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 5:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Linuxcnc vs Mach3 for Plasma Cutter? Mach3 is now pretty old. Is there a legit license installed with the software? Oftentimes machines were shipped with a demo license only. (limited Gcode support) CandCNC used to sell a lot of Mach3 software with their systems. Go look at their site now. If it works... why change it? Chances are that the torch height control won't work with LinuxCNC. Dave On 8/14/2018 4:11 PM, Todd Zuercher wrote: > I don’t want to start a big Mach bashing. I just want to hear some opinions > from those who have set up a simple CNC plasma machine with both Mach and > Linuxcnc. > > Are there any inherent advantages/disadvantages of one over the other for a > plasma cutter? > > Here where I work they just purchased a cheap plasma table kit and > they are setting it up with Mach3. (they being not me.) My self, having zero > experience with Mach3, probably would not have bothered trying to even > install Mach. > The machine is a simple stepper gantry using a Gecko 540 driver pack and I > think there is some form of THC contraption as well, but I have no details. > > The two people setting it up know next to nothing about Mach3 or CNC, and > even less about Linuxcnc (hence their choice to go with the Mach3 setup.) My > guess is that they are just following the instructions that came with the kit. > > Unfortunately I am too busy at my end of the shop to offer them a whole lot > of assistance, and since I know nothing about the plasma side of cnc... > > However I have threatened to come down to their end of the shop and > install LinuxCNC on it while they are not looking😊 > > Todd Zuercher > P. Graham Dunn Inc.<http://www.pgrahamdunn.com/index.php> > 630 Henry Street > Dalton, Ohio 44618 > Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
