On 1/24/23 15:10, John Dammeyer wrote:
Hi Rob,
No. I use AlibreCAD and the now old and discontinued AlibreCAM which is the
integrated Mecsoft VisualCAM.
As for I/O I think you might be missing the point. I've certainly had enough
people stress to me the ease of setting up their Centroid system. They are
happy with 3 axis and possibly 4.
The almost vitriol resistance to LinuxCNC is really quite amazing considering
how powerful it is. But it's not easy to set up. As the tutorial on Tormach's
install shows, get the wrong MESA version and it resets and updates and you
lose everything. Handy if you have a Tormach and don't want to think about the
underlying OS. Difficult when you get into asking users to start editing files
on non-Tormach machines.
So here's a suggestion since you were originally asking about Tormach. Why not
create a tutorial with diagrams for a simple 4 axis system using the Raspberry
Pi4, 7i92 from MESA (7 in stock today) and two of the Chinese BoBs. (I
reverse engineered them so I have the schematic).
Of course this should also specify exactly how to set up one of the common
smaller mills. Maybe something like this:
https://www.busybeetools.com/products/milling-machine-with-digital-readout-cx601.html
Drawings for the brackets. Motor selection. Power supply. The works.
Or even just AXIS instead of Tormach.
The point is I've had absolutely no luck in convincing anyone to move from
MACH3 or any other CNC 'package' to LinuxCNC. Why? That's the question we
need to answer.
John
[...]
Be carefull what you ask for John. I'm all in favor of the growth, but
really, if this list is suddenly flooded with winders escapees, there
aren't enough of us to take care of $dayjob, and support the
re-education of 10x the windoze educated. IMO the growth should be paced
at the level where there are enough of us that can answer the questions
that will arise.
Those that do have winders have a leg up on me. I refuse to contaminate
my mind with winblows stuff, I have only bought one machine, an hp lappy
I bought to go on the road when I was doing some broadcast consulting
after I retired, It only took about 3 days for me to stick a linux
install cd in the drive. That die was cast when the broadcom radio in
the lappy could not be used by the xp that it came with. Today I build
my own or buy used w/o an hd or the windows sticker.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>
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