> On 16 Feb 2020, at 11:14 am, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote:
> But let me ask a question. If you buy a Break Out Board with an LCD display
> large enough to show 5 Axis DRO, Spindle Speed and Feed rate. And it has
> buttons that let you do what my Lathe ELS does for jogging and using the MPG
> to move the axis. If it can operate stand-alone like that. Essentially a
> manual mill where the motors and encoders (or open loop if you trust
> steppers) serve as the DRO feedback but each axis has power feed is it not
> still just a manual mill with power feed and DROs? Along with electronic
> speed control of the spindle. No more stepped pulleys.
>
> Now if this fancy Break Out Board c/w display and buttons cost around $200
> and had an Ethernet connection that accepted messages as if it were a clone
> of a $200+ MESA Break Out Board what is the difference? And if this fancy
> Break Out Board had a few extra buttons like my Shumatech DRO has for finding
> center of a hole or edge or doing bolt circles. Or may a few other
> operations that MACH3/4 call wizards, all from that front panel, then
> depending on what you do, how often you do it, when do you need LinuxCNC?
Personally I would need LinuxCNC because what you have described does not do
what I want but if that is what you want then you should build it.
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