Got Path Pilot installed on a PC today. Overall the user interface is nice, simple and probably somewhat idiot proof. Of course it modified the MESA 7i92H to fit their HAL assignments and required the W6 jumper moved up for the proper Ethernet address. Doesn't much like two hard wired Ethernet ports. So far haven't yet been able to integrate it into my network although it does have Samba. But then I've had trouble getting Linux Mint to talk nicely to the Windows network too. It expects a VFD and frequency out for 0-10V generation instead of step/dir signals but that shouldn't be hard to change. Doesn't appear to have any support for a quadrature encoder on the spindle although I've seen a video of it doing power tapping. Doesn't have [JOINT_n] definitions so I'm guessing this is running LinuxCNC 2.7.n Not sure how to ask that from the command line. Definitely hidden in the Path Pilot interface. What is nice about it is the MACH3 like conversational programming for simple operations. Yes, I know there are command line programs for that sort of thing. I've even modified some of those to be visually based rewritten in Lazarus Free Pascal. Anyway. Other than Path Pilot are there any other user interfaces that also incorporate the conversational programming model? John
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