Windows has had a Hardware Abstraction Layer and Application Programming Interface for a long time, the objective is to make it much easier for hardware companies to interface their hardware with the software.
A manufacturer of a device like a 4th axis could provide the software required to operate it as a 'plugin' to the CNC operating system's universal software interface. On Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 11:34:28 AM MST, Bari <bari00...@gmail.com> wrote: How many CNC machine startup's have there been in the past few years? Maybe a handful in some niche markets? The vendors in China offer the popular CNC controllers that we all are accustomed to or use ARM controllers similar to NVEM. There have been several additive manufacturing start ups in the past few years but their investors and business strategy requires them to start from scratch and reinvent the wheels of PC controllers, Mesa FPGAs and LCNC. They don't want anything to be shared with their competition even though it can shave years off of getting a machine to market. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
